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October  8,  1910 


THE  CHEMIST  AND  DRUGGIST 


33 


A  Weekly  Journal  of  the  Chemical  and  Drug:  Trades 

and  of 

British  Pharmacists  throughout  the  Empire. 

ESTABLISHED  1859. 


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CONTENTS  :  Vol.  LXXVII.,  No.  15  .Series  No.  1602). 
[Tbe  folios  in  this  List  and  in  the  Summary  are  those  at  the  top 

of  the  pages,  but  references  in  the  Text  are  to  the  Index 

folios  at  the  bottom  of  the  pages.] 


PAGE 

Association  Presidents  ...  42  [ 

Bankruptcy  Report    39  [ 

Birth    40 

Business  Changes    46 

Coming  Events  ...Col.  Supp. 

Contracts    37  I 

Correspondence   66 

Deaths    40 

Deeds  of  Arrangement  ...  40 

Editorial  Articles : 

Bonded  Warehouses  ...  48 
•  Opening  of  the  Session  49 

Essential  Oils      49 

Notes    50 

English  and  Welsh  News  34 

French  News   36 

Gazette    40 

German  Letter    65 

Information  Department  46  ; 

Irish  News   35  [ 

Legal  Reports    38 

Marriages    40 

Medical  Exhibition    44 

New  Companies  and  Com- 
pany News   41 

Observations  and  Reflec- 
tions   47 


PAGE 

Personalities    42 

Pharmaceutical  Society 
of  Great  Britain  : 

Council  Meeting    52 

Opening  of  the  Session  54 
Portrait  Presentation  .  58 
Minor  Examinations  ...  46 
Pharmaceutical  Society 

of  Ireland    59 

Poisonings    50 

Prescription  Problem    ...  60 

Retrospect    68 

Scots  News   36 

South  African  News    37 

Trade-marks  Applied  For 

Col.  Sajip. 

Trade  Notes    41 

Trade  Report    61 

Will    40 

Winter  Session  of 
C  hem  ist  s'  Assoc  i  a  t  io  ns : 
Torquay ;  Manchester 
Optical ;  Chemist 

Opticians    42 

Dewsbury ;  Leeds ; 

London ;      Western ; 

Bradford    43 

Brighton   Col.  Supp. 


"Tbe  Chemists' 
and  Druggists* 
Diary,  1911." 


There  are  few  business  men  now- 
adays who  do  not  admit  that  adver- 
tising is  .a  business  asset.  It  is  be- 
coming more  and  more  valuable  as 
an  aid  to  trading  development,  but 
experienced  advertisers  are  now  more  discriminating  in  the 
choice  of  media.  There  is  never  any  hesitation  about  the 
business  influence  of  the  Chemists'  and  Druggists''  Diary, 
and  there  is  all  the  more  reason,  therefore,  why  those  con- 
nected with  chemical  industry,  pharmacy,  and  the  drug-trade, 
who  havo  not  already  done  so,  should  secure  space  without 
delay.  Brisk  booking  already  is  going  on,  for  the  Diary 
for  1911  must  go  to  press  early  in  November  in  order  that 
our  over-seas  subscribers  may  have  their  Diaries  to  begin 
the  New  Year.  Suggestions,  advice,  and  full  particulars 
from  the  Publisher,  The  Chemist  and  Druggist,  42  Cannon 
Street,  London,  E.C. 


Summary  of  this  Issue. 

The  more  notable  items  only  are  dealt  with. 


Articles  and  Communications. 

For  "  whether  "  in  reply  to  "  Herb  "  on  p.  67  read  "  where." 

Concise  notes  on  the  goods  shown  at  the  Medical  Exhibition 
held  in  London  this  week  begin  on  p.  44. 

Is  the  Minor  worth  the  trouble  ?    The  yea  and  nay  of  the 
matter  are  given  by  correspondents  on  p.  66. 
.  "  Xrayser  II."  gives  notes  in  regard  to  the  words  in  "  T  " 
in  the  new  part  of  the  Oxford  English  Dictionary  "  (p.  47). 

The  Board  of  Customs  and  Excise  have  decided  to  have 
periodic  revision  of  the  conditions  for  bonded  warehousing 
(P-  48). 

The  Ehrlich-Hata  "  606  "  remedy  for  svphilis  is  creating 
dissension  in  German  medical  circles  (p.  65).  Our  Paris 
correspondent  informs  us  that  it  was  discussed  at  the  Academy 
on  Monday. 

In  an  article  on  essential  oils  which  begins  on  p.  50,  we 
contrast  Messrs.  Hill  and  Umney's  figures  with  those  of  the 
French,  Swiss,  and  United  States  Pharmacopoeias.  The 
factors  are  embraced  in  a  table  on  p.  51. 

The  Week's  News. 


An  East-end  drug-store  keeper  has  been  fined  under  the 
Merchandise-marks  Act  for  selling  spurious  Beecham's  pills 
(p.  38). 

An  Exhibition  of  goods  specially  concerning  medical  men 
is  being  held  in  London  this  week.  We  mention  (pp.  44-46) 
some  of  the  exhibits  most  likely  to  be  interesting  to  phar- 
macists. 

A  portrait  of  Mr.  Walter  Hills  was  presented  to  him  at 
17  Bloomsbury  Square  on  Wednesday  afternoon,  and  he  asked 
the  President  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  to  accept  it  for 
the  Council-chamber  (p.  59). 

The  winter  session  of  Chemists'  Associations  has  begun  in 
earnest.  We  report  fully  half  a  dozen  opening  meetings, 
beginning  on  p.  42  with  a  portrait  of  Mr  Procter,  President  of 
the  Western  Pharmacists'  Association  of  London. 

Mr.  David  Howard,  F.I.C.,  F.C.S.,  delivered  the  inaugural 
address  at  the  reopening  of  the  School  of  Pharmacy,  Blooms- 
bury  Square,  on  Wednesday.  It  was  characteristic,  epi- 
grammatic, and  most  enjoyable.  We  give  a  verbatim  report 
of  it  on  p.  55. 

Partnership  in  Scotland  is  provided  for  like  companies  in 
the  Poisons  and  Pharmacy  Act,  1908.  A  drug-store  keeper 
in  Aberdeen,  who  was  summoned  for  selling  poisons,  failed 
to  convince  the  Sheriff  that  he  was  in  partnership  with  a 
printer's  reader  (p.  38). 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of 
Ireland,  Mr.  Smith  (the  President)  delivered  an  address 
showing  that  the  Society  is  progressing.  Mr.  Beggs  (the 
Treasurer)  confirmed  this  as  regards  the  accounts.  Retiring 
members  of  Council  were  re-elected  (p.  59). 

The  Pharmaceutical  Council-meeting  on  Wednesday  was  de- 
voted to  routine  business.  The  Treasurer  stated  that  the 
finances  of  the  Society  are  good  at  present.  Mr.  Edmund 
White  and  Mr.  E.  S.  Peck,  in  their  report  on  the  Congress  at 
Brussels,  had  a  paragraph  which  awakened  the  ire  of  Mr. 
Gifford,  and  there  was  a  brisk  breeze  about.  Mr.  White  took 
the  blame  (p.  52). 

Trade  and  Market  Matters. 

Price-alterations  are  numerous  this  week,  the  principal 
including  an  advance  in  bromides,  cocaine,  Sumatra  benzoin, 
cream  of  tartar,  menthol,  and  Mogador  orris.  Easier  and 
lower  items  include  English  refined  camphor,  chamomiles, 
chrvsarobin,  castor  oil,  valerian,  rhatany,  and  quicksilver 
(p.  61).   

FORMULAS  FOR  REMEDIES. 

We  propose  to  reserve  space  in  The  Chemists'  and  Druggists' 
Diary,  1911,  for  formulas  of  remedies  which  our  subscribers 
desire  to  bring  within  the  exemption  from  stamp-duty  ex- 
tended to  known,  admitted,  and  approved  remedies.  The 
C.  <£-  D.  Diary  was  the  first  publication  recognised  by  the 
Revenue  authorities  for  the  purpose  of  exemption  (July  20, 
1903).  Each  formula  sent  to  us  for  printing  should  be  written 
on  a  piece  of  paper  by  itself,  the  quantities  being  in  apothe- 
caries' signs,  and  the  shop  stamp  or  label  of  the  sender  should 
be  placed  on  the  back. 


B 


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October  8,  1910 


English  and  Welsh  News. 

When  sending  Newspapers  containing:  Trade  news  to  the  Editor 
please  mark  the  items. 


Brevities. 

The  Bermondsey  analyst  has  examined  recently  nine 
drug-samples,  all  of  which  were  genuine. 

The  Society  of  Apothecaries  will  attend  Divine  service 
at  the  church  of  St.  Andrew-by-the- Wardrobe  on  October  18. 

The  Stepney  analyst  has  returned  all  the  nineteen 
drug  samples  which  he  has  examined  recently  as  genuine. 

The  Executive  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference 
met  on  Wednesday  afternoon,  October  5,  after  the  prize  dis- 
tribution at  Bloomsbury  Square. 

The  Rochdale  Bench  have  transferred  the  medicated- 
wine  licence  attached  to  the  business  carried  on  at 
269  Drake  Street  by  Mr.  Geo.  Crabtree  Howarth  to  Mr. 
Geo.  Hardcastle  Wild. 

Mr.  E.  C.  Horton,  London  representative  for  Messrs. 
Butler  &  Crispe,  82  Clerkenwell  Road,  London,  E.G.,  came 
in  third  in  the  recent  London-to-Brighton  walk  of  the 
Surrey  Walking  Club,  with  a  time  of  8  hours  42  minutes 
6  seconds. 

Ten  Margate  chemists  have  announced  that  their  estab- 
lishments will  be  closed  during  October  and  April  at  5  p.m. 
on  Thursdays  and  at  8.30  p.m.  on  other  days,  except 
Saturdays  ;  and  during  November  to  March,  inclusive,  at 
2  P.M.  on  Thursdays  and  at  8  p.m.  on  other  days,  except 
Saturdays. 

The  memorial  which  has  been  sent  to  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee of  the  Liverpool  Corporation  objecting  to  the  pro- 
visions of  the  Shops  (No.  2)  Bill,  which  requires  simul- 
taneous closing  on  one  half-day  each  week,  has  been  signed 
by  1,294  tradesmen  and  ratepayers  of  the  city,  who  repre- 
sent 1,418  shops  and  businesses. 

A  fire  was  caused  at  the  Furthergate  Chemical-works, 
Blackburn,  of  Messrs.  Hardman  &  Holden,  Ltd.,  on  Sep- 
tember 28,  owing  to  some  tar  coming  in  contact  with  the 
fire  during  the  process  of  distillation.  A  wooden  shed  and 
engine-house  were  badly  damaged,  and  about  twenty 
barrels  of  oil  were  practically  destroyed. 

A  new  branch  of  the  Hull  and  Sculcoates  Dispensary 
was  opened  on  the  North  Boulevard,  Hull,  on  Septem- 
ber 30.  The  new  building  cost  1,000Z.  The  Chairman  of 
the  Management  Board  gave  some  details  of  the  work  of 
the  two  dispensaries  open  last  year.  14,500  recommenda- 
tions were  used,  and  132,375  people  obtained  medicine  or 
advice. 

An  application  from  the  Southwark  public  analyst 
{Mr.  C.  Dickinson,  B.Sc,  F.I.C.)  to  be  allowed  to  analyse 
samples  for  his  friends  in  his  own  time  and  in  his  own 
laborator}'  has  been  granted,  subject  to  each  specific  sample 
being  first  submitted  for  the  consideration  of  the  Public 
Health  Committee.  A  similar  concession  was  made  to  the 
applicant's  predecessor. 

Sir  Bubert  Boyce,  who  has  just  returned  from  West 
Africa,  addressed  a  meeting  of  the  African  Trades  Section 
of  the  Liverpool  Chamber  of  Commerce,  on  October  3,  on 
the  question  of  yellow  fever  in  West  Africa.  Sir  Rubert 
stated  that  this  trouble  is  endemic  to  that  region,  and  for 
years  it  has  been  mistaken  for  malaria.  He  considered 
that  yellow  fever  has  not  been  absent  from  Sierra  Leone 
since  1806. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Wallasey  Ratepayers'  Association 
an  inquiry  was  made  as  to  the  reasons  for  the  local  Council 
discontinuing  the  use  of  disinfectants  for  refuse-bins.  A 
member  of  the  local  Council  explained  that  the  use  of 
disinfectants  had  also  been  discontinued  on  the  roads  and 
ferry-boats,  because  the  medical  officer,  who  was  an 
expert  on  disinfectants,  considered  the  practice  was  abso- 
lutely useless. 

At  the  local  Revision  Court  on  September  26,  the  claim 
for  a  vote  of  Mr.  G.  B.  Daniel,  chemist  and  druggist, 
son  of  Mr.  George  Daniel,  272  High  Road,  Wood  Green, 
London,  N.,  was  disallowed  on  the  ground  that  he  does 
not  pay  rent  directly.    Mr.  Daniel,  senior,  stated  that  his 


son  occupied  a  bedroom  which,  if  he  did  not  use,  would 
not  be  occupied  at  all.  Although  he  paid  nothing  for  the 
room  actually,  he  had  it  in  lieu  of  money.  The  decision 
is  an  important  one,  as  it  will  affect  all  employers  whose 
sons  act  as  assistants  and  live  on  the  premises. 

Importation  of  Denatured  Tobacco. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  International  Fruit-growers' 
Federation,  held  at  the  Royal  Horticultural  Hall,  West- 
minster, on  October  3,  reference  was  made  to  the  Federa- 
tion's agitation  to  induce  the  Government  to  allow  de- 
natured tobacco  to  come  into  the  country  free  of  duty  for 
the  purpose  of  manufacturing  nicotine  or  insecticides  for 
the  use  of  fruit-growers.  It  was  stated  that  crude 
nicotine  can  be  made  from  denatured  tobacco  at  5s.  per  lb., 
but  as  at  present  manufacturers  may  use  only  waste 
tobacco  in  bonded  warehouses,  and  the  supply  is  inade- 
quate, the  price  has  been  forced  up  to  17s.  per  lb.  It  was 
decided  to  ask  the  Board  of  Agriculture  if  there  are  any 
hopes  of  the  matter  being  dealt  with  in  the  Finance  Bill. 
About  Hadium,  Niton,  and  Solar  Hays. 

Sir  William  Ramsay  delivered  the  first  of  a  series  of 
chemistry  lectures  at  University  College,  London,  on 
Monday.  Only  about  fifty  students  were  present,  of  whom 
some  were  Japanese,  Indian,  and  German,  and  some  young 
ladies.  In  the  course  of  his  lecture  Sir  W.  Ramsay  said 
that  it  was  necessary,  owing  to  the  enormous  cost  of 
radium — about  420,0002.  per  oz. — to  work  with  microscopic 
quantities  of  the  substance.  It  has  now  been  discovered 
that  the  gases  given  off  were  not  merely  mysterious  "in- 
fluences" or  "emanations,"  and  that  they  contained  a 
new  element  which  had  been  named  niton.  Its  existence 
would  never  have  been  suspected  but  for  the  discovery  of 
radium.  There  were  still  blanks  to  be  filled  up.  During 
the  lecture  Sir  William  Ramsay  called  attention  to  the 
fact  that  the  concentration  of  the  sun's  rays  through  a 
water-bottle  which  stood  on  the  table  had  set  the  table 
alight.  He  said  that  it  might  explain  the  origin  of  some 
mysterious  fires.  The  woodwork  was  charred  and  the 
flames  and  smoke  became  visible  across  the  lecture-room. 
An  attendant  extinguished  the  fire. 

Early  Closing. 

A  letter  from  the  Secretary  of  the  West  Ham  Association 
of  Pharmacists  and  one  from  the  Home  Secretary  came 
before  the  Leyton  Urban  District  Council  at  their  iast  meet- 
ing. The  former  communication  suggested  that  the  Closing 
Order  relating  to  chemists'  shops  should  be  amended  by 
the  insertion  of  the  following  article  : — ■ 

A  shop  to  which  this  Closing  Order  applies  may  be  kept 
open  after  the  closing  hour,  only  on  the  terms  and  under 
the  conditions :  (a)  That  effective  means  be  used  to  prevent 
any  person  entering  the  shop  until  it  has  been  ascertained 
by  the  occupier  or  occupier's  agent  that  it  is  for  the  pur- 
pose of  being  supplied  with  medicine  or  medical  or  surgical 
appliance,  or  for  other  legitimate  purpose;  and  (5)  that  no 
artificial  light  pertaining  to  the  shop,  which  light  is  con- 
spicuously visible  from  the  public  roadway,  be  shown  un- 
necessarily or  for  the  purpose  of  attracting  the  public. 

The  letter  from  the  Home  Secretary,  which  enclosed  a 
copy  addressed  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Association,  was 
in  reference  to  the  proposed  amendment.  It  was  inti- 
mated that,  although  the  desirability  of  means  being 
taken  for  making  the  enforcement  of  Closing  Orders 
effectual  is  fully  appreciated,  the  Home  Secretary  thinks 
there  would  be  difficulties  in  the  way  of  imposing  the 
conditions  suggested.  The  Council  decided  to  take  no 
action  in  the  matter. 

Poison-licences . 

A  poison-licence  has  been  applied  for  by  Jane  Vaughan, 
of  the  Green  Shop,  Llangedwyn,  near  Oswestry. 

The  Chorley  Town  Council  renewed  the  poison-licence  of 
Mr.  J.  W.  Stone,  grocer  and  seedsman,  6  Market  Street, 
Chorley,  on  September  28. 

At  a  meeting  held  on  September  30,  the  Hull  Corpora- 
tion's Sanitary  Committee  decided  by  ten  votes  to  three 
to  issue  licences  to  Messrs.  E.  P.  Dixon  &  Sons,  Ltd., 
and  D.  Toyne  &  Sons.  During  the  discussion,  Dr.  Lilley 
said  the  chemists  already  met  the  reasonable  requirements 
of  the  public,  and  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  sup- 
ported him.  Councillor  Watson  said  of  the  two  deputa- 
tions he  believed  that  the  seedsmen  had  the  better  case, 


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■while  Dr.  Robinson  said  the  sale  had  been  in  the  hands 
of  the  seedsmen  for  years,  and  that  they  ought  to  keep 
it.  Dr.  Lilley  said  the  inquiry  by  the  seedsmen's  solicitor 
was  not  all  it  should  have  been,  since  the  chemist  could 
not  stock  all  the  different  articles  that  had  been  asked  for. 
[The  solicitor  had  reported  that  his  attempt  to  obtain 
supplies  of  insecticides  from  twelve  local  pharmacists 
established  beyond  doubt  that  the  seedsmen  were  the 
tradesmen  to  whom  the  public  applied  for  them,  since  they 
did  not  stock  several  articles  he  asked  for,  and  even 
recommended  him  in  some  instances  to  apply  to  seeds- 
men for  them.] 

Birmingham  Notes. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barron  Cadbury,  the  latter  a  daughter  of 
Mr.  Alfred  Southall,  F.C.S.,  have  presented  an  open-air 
school  for  seventy  children  at  Uffculme,  King's  Heath, 
to  the  City  of  Birmingham  Education  Committee. 

Mr.  Wilfred  F.  Southall,  of  Messrs.  Southall  Bros.  & 
Barclay,  Ltd.,  gave  an  interesting  address  on  some  impres- 
sions of  the  Holy  Land,  obtained  during  a  recent  visit,  at 
the  first  sessional  meeting  of  the  Birmingham  Branch  of  the 
Commercial  Travellers'  Christian  Association  on  October  1 
The  lecturer  was  heartily  thanked  for  his  instructive 
address. 

At  the  conversazione  of  the  Medical  Faculty  of  Bir- 
mingham University,  held  October  3,  an  interesting  pro- 
gramme was  gone  through  after  the  reception,  which 
included  exhibitions  of  drugs  and  appliances,  including 
radium,  solid  carbon  dioxide,  and  the  "  No.  606  "  remedy 
by  Messrs.  Southall,  under  the  personal  direction  of  Mr. 
E.  C.  Benison.  Messrs.  Philip  Harris  &  Co.  also  showed 
the  carbon-dioxide  snow  and  other  apparatus,  as  well  as 
pharmaceutical  preparations  and  bacteriological  requisites. 
Messrs.  Salt  &  Son  and  Messrs.  Anderson  &  Dodds  both 
had  interesting  general  exhibits  of  surgical  instruments. 
The  large  attendance  included  a  notable  sprinkling  of 
pharmacists  and  some  pharmacist-physicians. 

Boots,  Ltd.,  are  making  a  big  display  of  a  cheap  vacuum 
flask,  one  in  section  showing  its  construction.  Another 
window  is  filled  with  a  new  kind  of  tooth-powder  and  other 
preparations  for  the  teeth. 

Window-dressing  Competitions. 

The  competitors  in  the  shop-window  dressing  competition 
in  connection  with  the  Canterbury  Shopping  Festival  in- 
clude Mr.  A.  Lander,  Ph.C,  High  Street,  and  Messrs. 
Walker  &  Harris,  chemists,  Sun  Street. 

Accrington  chemists  are  taking  part  in  the  Shopping 
Festival  which  commenced  on  October  1.  Councillor  W.  R. 
Cameron,  chemist  and  druggist,  is  the  pharmacists'  repre- 
sentative on  the  General  and  "  Things  to  Use  "  Committees. 

The  following  connected  with  the  retail  drug-trade  in 
Bury  are  among  the  230  entrants  in  the  window-dressing 
■competition  in  connection  with  the  local  Shopping  Festival  : 
Messrs.  A.  W.  Chamley,  J.  C.  Croasdale,  Clement  Cromp- 
ton,  W.  Crompton,  W.  Mitchell,  and  Waller  &  Riley,  Ltd. 
Nottingham  Notes. 

Sir  Jesse  Boot  is  to  be  asked  to  become  the  first  presi- 
dent of  the  Nottingham  Shorthand-writers'  Association, 
the  first  meeting  of  which  was  held  on  September  30. 

Nottingham  Thursday  United  Football  Club,  which  in- 
cludes a  strong  pharmaceutical  contingent,  continued  their 
series  of  victories  by  beating  Bui  well  Thursday  Villa  F.C. 
by  one  goal  to  none  on  September  29. 

At  a  meeting  of  125  midwives.  held  in  the  Exchange  Hall. 
Nottingham,  it  was  decided  to  form  an  association  in 
affiliation  with  the  Midwives'  Institute.  Fifty-one  mid- 
wives  gave  in  their  names  for  enrolment. 

Administration  of  Anaesthetics  in  Teeth  Extraction. 

During  the  inquiry  at  Haydock,  Cheshire,  on  October  4, 
into  the  death  of  Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Clarke,  Robert  A. 
Dickinson,  of  St.  Helens,  said  he  was  formerly  a  clerk, 
but  for  the  last  eighteen  months  he  had  been  extracting 
teeth  on  behalf  of  his  employer,  Mr.  Patterson,  dentist, 
Bolton.  In  the  case  of  Mrs.  Clarke  he  administered 
eucaine  as  an  anaesthetic. 

The  Coroner  (Mr.  Brighouse)  :  Do  you  know  what 
eucaine  is?  -Witness  :  It  is  the  same  as  cocaine,  but  has 


not  got  the  injurious  qualities  that  cocaine  has.  Further 
than  that  witness  could  not  say. — Do  you  consider  you 
are  quite  qualified  to  form  a  correct  opinion  as  to  whether 
a  person  should  have  an  anaesthetic  or  not  ?  Yes. — And 
you  think  you  are  perfectly  capable  of  administering 
it?  Yes. — The  Coroner,  after  the  verdict  had  been 
given,  suggested  to  Mr.  Patterson  that  if  he  employed 
people  to  abstract  teeth  who  had  only  eighteen  months' 
experience  he  must  not  be  surprised  if  they  got  into 
trouble. — The  jury's  verdict  did  not  throw  any  of  the 
responsibility  of  death  upon  the  anaesthetic. 

Football. 

A  team  representative  of  Messrs.  Thomas  Christy  & 
Co.  beat  the  British  Drug  House  F.C,  in  a  match  played 
at  Walthamstow  on  October  1,  by  five  goals  to  nil. 
In  the  Courts. 

At  Exeter  Police  Court  on  October  1,  Mr.  William 
Forward  Pearce,  chemist  and  druggist,  19  South  Street, 
Exeter,  was  fined  5s.,  and  costs,  for  selling  explosives — 
namely  crackers — to  a  boy  under  thirteen. 

At  the  Tower  Bridge  Police  Court  on  October  4,  the 
four  prisoners  connected  with  the  theft  of  saccharin 
(C.  &  D.,  October  1,  p.  502)  were  committed  for  trial  to  the 
Central  Criminal  Court.  Accused,  who  pleaded  not  guilty, 
reserved  their  defence. 

At  the  monthly  Petty  Sessions  held  at  Llanfihangel-ar- 
Arth  on  September  28,  David  Morgan  Davies,  described 
as  a  chemist,  Llanybyther,  denied  having  sold  wine  in 
an  unauthorised  place  on  August  2.  The  case  was  ad- 
journed, a  constable  stating  that,  in  view  of  a  statement 
by  accused  that  he  would  plead  guilty,  he  had  accordingly 
not  subpoenaed  a  witness. 

At  the  Marylebone  Police  Court  on  September  30,  Mile. 
Laurent,  a  former  directress  of  the  Home  for  French 
Governesses,  asked  the  Magistrate's  permission  to  withdraw 
the  charge  against  Mme.  Bertot,  the  present  directress, 
of  sending  to  her  by  post  sweets  which  Mr.  C.  E.  Sage, 
F.I.C.,  Ph.C,  found  to  be  impregnated  with  mercuric 
chloride  solution  [C.  <b  D.,  July  30,  p.  135).  The  Magis- 
trate (Mr.  Paul  Taylor)  said  he  saw  no  objection  to  the 
withdrawal,  which,  on  the  contrary,  seemed  a  very  happy 
termination  of  the  matter. 

At  the  Swansea  County  Court  on  October  4,  before 
Judge  Bryn  Roberts,  the  hearing  was  concluded  of  a  claim 
brought  by  Mr.  Myrddin  Davies,  chemist,  Oxford  Street, 
Swansea,  to'  recover  from  Mr.  Adams  Morris,  commercial 
traveller,  Swansea,  81.  5s.  rent  for  the  storage  of  a 
motor-car  from  1906  to  January  1910.  There  was  a 
counterclaim  for  501.  in  respect  of  alleged  loss  of  tools, 
damage  to  the  car,  etc.  Plaintiff,  in  addition  to  his 
chemist's  business,  carried  on  with  his  son  the  Central 
Motor  Garage  and  Electrical  Engineering  Co.,  and 
the  defendant  stored  with  him  a  "  Gladiator  "  motor-car. 
His  Honour,  after  a  protracted  hearing,  found  for  the 
plaintiff  on  the  claim,  and  gave  defendant  four  guineas 
on  the  counterclaim  for  the  user  of  the  car. 


Irish  News. 

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Drug-supplies. 

Messrs.  Bonnar  &  Henderson,  druggists,  Wellington 
Street,  Ballymena,  have  been  awarded  the  contracts  for 
candles,  soft  soap,  jams  (Irish  manufacture),  and  salt  by 
the  Ballymena  Board  of  Guardians. 

An  appeal  was  made  at  the  Belfast  Board  of  Guardians 
for  the  provision  of  an  ounce  of  tobacco  per  week  for  the 
workmen  at  the  Sanatorium,  and  when  the  Chairman 
asked  who  would  pay  for  it,  Mr.  J.  T.  Hall  replied  that 
it  could  be  given  as  medicine,  and  the  Local  Government 
Board  would  then  pay  for  it.  Needless  to  add,  this  sug- 
gestion was  not  acted  on. 

The  question  of  medicine  empties  cropped  up  last  week 
again  at  a  meeting  of  the  Granard  Board  of  Guardians,  to 
whom  Messrs.  John  Clarke  &  Co.  are  the  contractors. 


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The  firm  had  written  about  the  returning  of  empties,  and 
a  Guardian  said  they  should  pay  for  the  packing  of  them, 
while  the  Clerk  remarked  that  he  was  not  going  to  transact 
Messrs.  Clarke's  business,  this  remark  being  in  connection 
with  the  naming  of  a  carrier  to  take  the  empties. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Cork  Guardians  last  week  the 
Chairman  (Mr.  M.  McDonnell)  protested  against  the 
action  of  the  Local  Government  Board  in  refusing  to 
sanction  the  tender  of  the  Cork  Chemical  and  Drug  Co. 
for  medicines  on  the  ground  of  a  small  difference  in  cost. 
It  was  decided  to  leave  the  matter  in  the  hands  of  the 
Members  of  Parliament  for  the  city,  in  the  hope  that  the 
Secretary  for  Ireland  would  be  approached. 

Brevities. 

The  staff  of  Messrs.  Hugh  Moore  &  Alexanders,  Ltd., 
wholesale  druggists,  The  Linen  Hall,  Dublin,  made  Mr. 
E.  A.  Fisher  a  handsome  presentation  prior  to  his  departure 
for  Canada. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Belfast  Corporation  on  October  3, 
the  Police  Committee  reported  that  they  had  received  an 
application  from  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Shaw,  100  High  Street, 
for  a  licence  under  the  Poisons  and  Pharmacy  Act,  1908, 
and  the  Town  Clerk  was  authorised  to  issue  the  licence, 
provided  the  report  from  the  police  authorities  was  satis- 
factory. 

Mr.  D.  W.  Elliott,  M.P.S.I.,  Shaftesbury  Square,  Bel- 
fast, has  been  elected  as  Vice-President  of  the  newly 
formed  Belfast  Unionist  Municipal  Association,  and  of  the 
Belfast  Y.M.C.A.  Camera  Club.  Mr.  A.  R.  Hogg,  a 
member  of  the  Chemists'  and  Druggists'  Society  of  Ire- 
land, has  also  been  appointed  a  Vice-President  of  the 
latter  organisation. 

The  negotiations  between  Messrs.  Wm.  Dobbin  &  Co., 
Ltd..  chemists  and  druggists,  North  Street,  and  the  Cor- 
poration regarding  the  extension  of  their  premises  and  the 
widening  of  the  street  are  still  unsettled.  During  the 
month  Messrs.  Dobbin's  solicitor  wrote  stating  that, 
failing  the  plans  being  passed  without  delay,  his  clients 
would,  without  further  notice,  apply  for  a  mandamus  to 
compel  the  Corporation  to  pass  them.  The  town  solicitor 
conferred  with  Messrs.  Dobbin's  solicitor  afterwards,  but 
failed  to  come  to  an  arrangement;  and  on  October  3  the 
Council  passed  a  resolution  instructing  the  Law  Com- 
mittee to  proceed  by  arbitration  under  the  powers  con- 
tained in  the  Local  Acts  to  acquire  the  ground  necessary 
for  widening  North  Street  at  Messrs.  Dobbin's  property. 


Scots  News. 

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Edinburgh. 

Edinburgh  and  district  have  attracted  a  large  number 
of  visitors  during  the  past  week  or  so.  The  Second  Battle 
Squadron  has  been  lying  off  Queensferry,  and  the  Second 
Torpedo  Flotilla  outside  Granton  Harbour ;  while  the 
race-meeting  at  Musselburgh  was  also  responsible  for  the 
usual  influx  of  strangers. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  British  Hospitals  Association  Con- 
ference held  in  Glasgow  on  Friday,  September  30,  Coun- 
cillor Macpherson,  Edinburgh,  spoke  of  cases  within  his 
own  knowledge  in  which  people  came  from  houses  of  60Z. 
to  1001.  rental  to  occupy  beds  in  Edinburgh  Royal  In- 
firmary. He  stated  that  such  conduct  was  not  only  selfish, 
but  scandalous. 

Edinburgh  Chemists'  Golf  Club. 

The  closing  match  of  the  season  was  held  over  Cramond 
Brig  Golf  Course  between  teams  chosen  by  the  Captain  and 
Hon.  Secretary,  and  resulted  in  a  draw.  The  autumn  com- 
petition was  held  over  Kinghorn  Golf  Course,  when  the 
prize-winners  were  E.  Steven,  A.  J.  Clark,  and  (a  tie)  D.  S. 
Philp  and  A.  Seth.  The  "Gibson"  Aggregate  Medal  has 
resulted  in  a  tie  between  Messrs.  Alf.  Kearney  and  Chas. 
Stewart. 

Glasgow  and  the  West. 

The  annual  award  of  the  Kinninmont  Gold  Medal,  com- 
memorating the  life-work  of.  the  late  Mr.  Alexander 
Kinninmont,  pharmaceutical  chemist,  Glasgow,  will  shortly 


be  made.  The  applications  of  students  of  pharmacy  in 
respect  to  the  matter  should  be  addressed  to  Mr.  W.  L. 
Currie,  223  Byres  Road,  Glasgow. 

October  has  opened  well  for  business.  Dispensing  in 
city  pharmacies  is  heavier  than  it  has  been  for  several 
months,  and  with  increasing  trade  in  general  the  public 
seem  more  ready  to  purchase  toilet  luxuries,  etc.  The 
leading  window- displays  consist  of  cod-liver  oil  and  malt 
extract  and  allied  preparations,  while  the  indiarubber  hot- 
water  bottle  is  invariably  present. 

The  estates  of  Christie  Bros.,  wholesale  chemists, 
11  Dundas  Street,  Glasgow,  and  Andrew  Christie,  a  partner, 
were  sequestrated  on  September  29,  and  a  meeting  of  the 
creditors  to  elect  the  trustee  and  commissioners  is  to  be 
held  at  the  Faculty  Hall,  St.  George's  Place,  Glasgow,  on 
October  12,  at  12  o'clock.  A  composition  may  be  offered 
at  this  meeting,  and  to  entitle  creditors  to  the  first  dividend 
their  oaths  and  grounds  of  debt  must  be  lodged  on  or  before 
January  29,  1911.  Messrs.  Rosslyn,  Mitchell  &  Ruther- 
ford, 157  West  George  Street,  Glasgow,  are  agents. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Dumbarton  County  Council  on 
October  3,  Mr.  Alexander  Wylie  moved  that  the  Council 
take  steps  to  impress  upon  the  Government  the  urgent 
necessity  for  amending  the  Food  and  Drugs  Acts  so  as 
to  include  restrictions  on  the  trade  in  secret  remedies. 
The  motion  was  unanimously  carried  and  it  was  decided  to 
communicate  it  to  the  Local  Government  Board  and  the 
County  Councils'  Association.  In  submitting  his  motion 
Mr.  Wvlie  said  that  patent  medicines  are  inflicting  a  great 
amount  of  injury  to  the  health,  life  and  morals  of  the 
community,  and  in  support  of  his  statements  he  mentioned 
what  the  "  British  Medical  Journal"  ("Association,"  he 
said)  is  doing  in  the  way  of  analysing  popular  proprie- 
taries. 

"  The  Glasgow  Herald"  of  October  4  devoted  a  column 
to  a  talk  between  a  la-de-dah  customer  and  a  chemist's 
assistant  about  the  medicine  that  the  customer  wanted  "  for 
something  in  the  head  with  an  'itis."  The  end  of  it  is 
sufficient  for  us  to  quote  : 

"  Wong  again.  I  say,  what  a  lot  of  silly  things  you  keep 
heah.    Do  people  use  'em  all?" 

"Sometimes.  Salol?" 

"  That's  the  fellow  !  Knew  it  as  soon  as  you  mentioned 
him.  Do  me  up  a  few  bottles  of  that,  will  you?  Thought 
we  should  get  at  the  stuff  with  a  bit  of  tact.  Useful  thing, 
tact ;  eh  ?  "  .       .  .  ,, 

"  But  Salol  would  never  be  used  for  peridentitis. 

"  Milly  said  Salol,  I  sweah." 

"Well,  it  cannot  be  peridentitis,  sir.  Must  be  liver  com- 
plaint." 

"  By  Jove,  that's  it !  Milly  didn't  want  me  to  talk  about — 
about  things  like  that — to  a  stwanjah.  That  was  clevah,  I 
don't  think.  .  .  .  By  Jove,  what  tact !  Eh,  what?  One  and- 
nine  ?  Thanks." 


French  News. 

(From  the  "  C.  &  D."  Correspondent.) 


Dr.  Masson,  the  pharmacist  inspector  of  the  French 
army,  was  recently  placed  on  the  retired  list.  His  subordi- 
nates organised  a  meeting  with  the  object  of  taking  public 
and  individual  leave  of  their  respected  chief.  Principal 
Pharmacist  Roeser  bid  him  good-bye  and  God-speed  in  the 
name  of  all  his  comrades.  Dr.  Masson  suitably  replied, 
and  touched  on  military  pharmacy  and  its  recent  history. 

Artificial  Mineral- waters. — In  the  Preface  to  the 
French  Codex  of  1884  the  compilers  stated  that  their  inten- 
tion was  to  suppress  the  denominations  of  artificial  mineral- 
waters,  merely  retaining  the  formula?  as  solutions.  As  a 
matter  of  fact,  pharmacists  continued  to  sell  packets  of  salts 
bearing  the  names  of  mineral  springs.  But  the  Seine 
Tribunal  recently  decided  that  to  thus  apply  the  name  of 
a  spring  to  an  artificial  product  was  illegal.  Should  this 
decision  be  maintained,  pharmacists  will  have  to  be  careful 
not  to  sell  under  the  name  of  a  spring  any  powder, "etc.,  not 
produced  in  the  locality  in  question. 

Explosion  in  a  Pharmacy. — M.  Guillaud's  pharmacy  in 
the  Cours  Lafayette,  Lyons,  has  recently  been  the  scene  of 
a  terrible,  and  it  is  feared  fatal,  explosion.  M.  Maurice 
Chambost,  a  young  married  assistant  employed  at  the 


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37 


**  Pharmacy  Prince,"  as  M.  Guillaud's  establishment  is 
usually  called,  was  pounding  chlorate  of  potash  for  the 
purpose  of  making  tooth-powder,  when  he  made  a  false 
(movement  and  overbalanced  the  mortar.  It  fell  to  the 
ground,  and  a  violent  explosion  followed.  The  bench  on 
which  the  mortar  had  been  placed  was  badly  damaged,  the 
glass  blown  out  of  the  shop-front,  and  a  large  number  of 
glass  jars  and  bottles  broken.  The  thick  smoke  which 
issued  from  the  shop  gave  rise  to  a  belief  that  a  fire  had 
.broken  out,  and  the  firemen  were  quickly  at  hand,  to  find 
M.  Chambost  lying  on  the  ground,  losing  blood  from  several 
-wounds,  his  clothes  torn,  and  his  watch  bent  out  of  shape, 
first-aid  having  been  given,  he  was  removed  to  a  hospital, 
•where  he  lies  in  a  critical  condition,  peritonitis  being  feared. 


South  African  News. 

"  The  Chemist  and  Druggist "  is  regularly  supplied  by  order 
to  all  the  members  of  the  seven  Societies  and  Associations  of 
Chemists  in  business  in  British  South  Africa. 


Cape  Colony. 

Arson  Charge. — At  Simonstown  on  August  31,  the 
.acting  Magistrate,  having  heard  further  evidence  in  the 
case  in  which  Mr.  C.  Richards,  chemist,  Kalk  Bay,  is 
charged  with  arson,  formally  committed  the  accused  for 
trial,  the  amount  of  bail  being  reduced  to  251. 

Orange  Free  State. 

Medical  and  Pharmacy  Council. — The  ordinary  monthly 
meeting  of  the  Council  was  held  on  September  9.  The 
following  members  were  present  :  Dr.  Ward  (President), 
Drs.  Bidwell,  Manning,  Swift,  and  Pratt-Yule,  Mr.  Red- 
path  (dental  member),  and  Mr.  Jeffreys  (one  of  the  pharma- 
ceutical members).  The  Board  of  Examiners  appointed 
for  the  Chemists  and  Druggists'  examination  held  on 
August  24  and  25  reported  that  both  the  candidates  had 
failed.  The  Secretary  was  instructed  to  inform  the  candi- 
dates in  what  subjects  they  had  failed  to  satisfy  the 
examiners,  both  having  succeeded  in  obtaining  the  neces- 
sary total  aggregate.  The  Board  further  recommended 
the  Council  to  arrange,  if  possible,  for  the  examination  in 
practical  pharmacy  and  dispensing  to  be  taken  first  on 
future  occasions,  with  a  view  to  allowing  the  candidates 
to  do  themselves  justice  in  this  the  most  important  subject 
of  the  examination.  A  suggestion  was  also  brought  for- 
ward at  the  instance  of  Mr.  Lyle,  one  of  the  examiners, 
that  the  Board  of  Examiners  should  be  given  power  to  allow 
candidates  to  take  the  examination  in  two  parts  in  view 
of  the  want  of  facilities  for  study  afforded  in  the  Free 
State.  Consideration  of  the  resolution  and  the  suggestion 
were  postponed  with  a  view  to  the  pharmaceutical  members 
•of  the  Council  making  themselves  au  fait  with  the  question. 
Dr.  Manning,  one  of  the  examiners  in  prescriptions, 
pointed  out  that  one  of  the  candidates  at  this  examination 
had  complained  to  him  regarding  the  inconvenience  caused 
by  the  candidates  having  in  specified  instances  had  to 
search  for  the  appliances  necessary  for  the  conducting  of 
the  examination,  instead  of  those  appliances  being  ready 
for  use  in  the  examination  room,  thereby  causing  a  certain 
loss  of  time  out  of  that  allotted  them.  After  further  dis- 
cussion it  was  decided  that  the  Secretary  should,  when 
further  examinations  took  place,  ascertain  a  fortnight 
before  the  examination  that  the  various  apparatus,  utensils, 
etc.,  were  placed  in  the  examination  room  for  the  con- 
venience of  those  to  be  examined.  Before  any  steps,  how- 
ever, could  be  taken  by  the  Council  it  was  decided  that 
Dr.  Manning  and  Mr.  Westlake,  one  of  the  examiners  in 
pharmacy  and  dispensing,  should  make  further  inquiries 
regarding  the  allegation  made  and  report  to  the  Council. — 
The  following  registration  was  approved  :  Joseph  Michael 
Sanford  (chemist  and  druggist,  Great  Britain,  1890)  as  a 
chemist  and  druggist.  (Present  address,  c/o  Messrs.  C.  E. 
Gardner  &  Co.,  St.  Andrew's  Street,  Bloemfontein.) 

Transvaal. 

Business  Change. — Mr.  John  Sachs,  pharmaceutical  and 
manufacturing  chemist,  Pretoria,  has  acquired  the  Pretoria 
Drug  Co.,  one  of  the  oldest-established  pharmacies  in  the 
Transvaal. 


Contracts. 


The  following  contracts  have  been  settled  since  our  last 
report : 

Epsom  Guardians.— Bleasdale,  Ltd.,  York,  for  the  supply 
of  drugs. 

Reigate  Guardians.— Mr.  W.  H.  Fowler,  Ph.C,  Reigate, 
for  drugs. 

Chesterton  Guardians.— Mr.  R.  W.  Moden,  Chesterton,  for 
disinfectants. 

Southampton  Guardians.— W.  Bates  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  chemists, 
Southampton,  for  drugs. 

Nottingham  Union.— Mr.  Samborne  Cook,  chemist  and 
druggist,  for  drugs,  etc. 

Scarborough  Guardians.— Armour  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  for  Vigoral 
(4  oz.),  at  Is.  6d.  per  bottle. 

Grantham  Guardians.— Mr.  H.  Hopkinson,  pharmacist, 
Grantham,  chemist's  goods. 

Bury  St.  Edmunds  Guardians.— Nunn,  Hinnell  &  Clark, 
chemists,  Bury,  for  drugs,  etc. 

Camberwell  Guardians.— North  British  Rubber  Co.,  for 
four  water-beds  at  4s.  9d.  per  lb. 

Romsey  Guardians.— Mr.  J.  E.  Frost,  chemist,  Romsey, 
for  drugs,  surgical  dressings,  etc. 

Belper  Guardians. — Calvert  &  Son,  chemists,  Belper,  for 
the  three  months'  supply  of  drugs. 

Peterborough  Guardians.— Mr.  T.  J.  Calcutt,  chemist, 
Peterborough,  for  the  drug-supply. 

Stoke-on-Trent  Board  of  Guardians. — Mr.  T.  C.  Cornwell, 
Ph.C,  Hanley,  for  the  drug-supply. 

East  Grinstead  Guardians. — H.  S.  Martin,  Ltd.,  chemists, 
East  Grinstead,  for  hospital  requisites. 

Brentford  Guardians. — Middleton  Bros.,  for  disinfectants 
during  the  next  six  months,  at  102/.  18s. 

Blandford  Guardians. — Groves  &  Hall,  chemists,  Blandford, 
for  drugs  during  the  ensuing  six  months. 

Chester  Guardians. — Mr.  J.  W.  Huke,  chemist,  Chester,  for 
the  six  months'  supply  of  drugs,  at  44/.  10s. 

Aberystwyth  Guardians. — Mr.  E.  P.  Wynne,  chemist, 
Aberystwyth,  for  the  supply  of  disinfectants. 

Wrexham  Guardians. — Francis  &  Co.,  chemists,  Wrexham, 
for  the  six  months'  supply  of  drugs,  at  21/.  5s. 

Faversham  Guardians. — Mr.  J.  T.  T.  Rolfe,  pharmacist, 
Faversham,  appointed  chemist  for  six  months. 

Hemsworth  Guardians. — Mr.  G.  Hodgson,  chemist  and 
druggist,  Hemsworth,  for  drugs  and  disinfectants. 

Faversham  Rural  District  Council. — Stedman  &  Coldwell, 
chemists,  Teynham,  Kent,  appointed  chemists  for  six  months. 

Lancaster  Guardians. — Mr.  Win.  Arkle,  chemist,  Lancaster, 
for  the  supply  of  drugs  to  the  workhouse  during  the  next 
half-year. 

Essex  Education  Committee. — For  spectacles :  Spherical 
glasses  at  Is.  8d.  per  pair ;  plain  cylinders  at  2s.  Ad.  per  pair ; 
sphero  cylinders  at  3s.  bd.  per  pair  net. 

Bath  Guardians.— Corbyn,  Stacey  &  Co.,  London,  for  the 
supply  of  drugs;  Boots,  Ltd.,  for  waterproof  sheeting; 
Appleby  &  Co.,  chemists,  Bath,  for  drugs  urgently  needed. 

Wolverhampton  Guardians.— Mr.  W.  G.  Taylor,  for  surgical 
dressings,  at  72/.  16s.  l0(Z.  ;  Corbyn,  Stacey  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  for 
the  drug-supply  to  the  workhouse,  at  48/.  Is.  3fc/.,  and  for  the 
out-relief  dispensary,  at  33/.  0s.  10a<Z. 

Admiralty.— John  Richardson  &  Co.,  Leicester,  Ltd.,  for 
the  supply  of  drugs  and  medicines  to  the  Navy  for  a  further 
period  of  three  years  from  January  1911.  Messrs.  Richardson 
&  Co.  have  held  the  contract  without  a  break  since  1893. 

Brentford  Guardians.— For  half-yearly  supplies  :  Victoria 
Rubber  Co.,  Edinburgh,  for  waterproof  sheeting,  at 
52/.  Is.  8tZ. ;  Middleton  Bros.,  for  disinfectants,  at  102/.  Is.  8(2.  ; 
A.  E.  Moore,  Brentford,  for  meat-extract,  at  266/.  5s.  ;  York 
Mineral  Water  Co.,  Brentford,  for  mineral  waters,  at 
37/.  12s.  bd. 

Tiverton  (Devon)  Union.— Mr.  T.  E.  Rossiter,  chemist  and 
druggist,  Tiverton,  for  combs,  at  Is.  6cZ.  to  4s.  bd.  doz.  ; 
disinfecting-fluid,  3s.  gal.:  elastic  stockings,  3s.  each;  fly- 
papers, 5s.  4i<7.  gross ;  fullers'  earth,  2d.  lb.  ;  hair-brushes, 
from  9<Z.  each  ;  insect-powder,  2s.  Ad.  lb.  ;  chloride  of  lime, 
2{d.  lb.;  linseed  oil,  3s.  M.  gal.;  cod-liver  oil,  Is.  Id.  pint; 
flask  oil,  10s.  bd.  case:  Sanitas  oil,  5s.  M.  ±  gal.;  coal-tar 
soap,  lOrZ.  lb.  :  glycerin-soap,  2(Z.  lb.  ;  bay-salt,  9£cZ.  7  lb. ; 
soda-water.  3s.  bd.  doz. :  spirits  of  turpentine,  4s.  gal.  ;  trusses, 
Is.  9d.  single,  2s.  3<Z.  double ;  whiting,  b^d.  per  14  lb. 


How  Diamonds  were  Made. — Sir  William  Crookes,  in  his 
book  on  diamonds,  discussing  their  genesis,  is  clearly  of 
opinion  that,  whether  of  inter-terrestrial  or  of  extra-terrestrial 
origin,  the  conclusion  is  established,  both  by  observation  and 
experiment,  that  the  solvent  from  which  the  carbon  has 
crystallised  must  have  been  molten  iron. 


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October  8,  1910 


Legal  Reports. 


Refreshment  Houses  Act. 

Herb  Beers. 

At  Hull  on  September  29,  William  Stokes,  medicine- 
vendor,  28  Hessle  Road,  Hull,  was  summoned  for  keeping 
a  refreshment-house  without  a  licence.  The  defendant  sold 
sarsaparilla-and-dandelion  stout  and  cough-balsam  for 
consumption  on  the  premises.  Mr.  J.  H.  Robinson, 
analyst  from  the  Government  Laboratories,  stated  that  all 
were  beverages  of  the  class  known  as  herbal  or  botanic 
beers.  The  sarsaparilla-and-dandelion  stout  was  con- 
posed  of  a  solution  of  sugar  fermented  with  yeast  con- 
taining alcohol,  saccharin,  and  a  small  quantity  of  bitter 
flavouring.  The  cough-balsam  was  mad©  of  the  same  solu- 
tion of  sugar,  etc.,  flavoured  with  oil  of  aniseed.  He  did 
not  regard  them  as  medicines.  Mr.  John  Carmichael, 
F.C.S.,  also  of  the  Government  Laboratories,  corroborated. 
For  the  defence  it  was  contended  that  the  drinks  were 
medicines  and  not  beverages,  and  that  stamp-duty  was 
paid  on  the  cough-balsam.  The  Bench  convicted;  but  as 
the  business  had  been  carried  on  for  many  years  without 
any  complaint  they  imposed  a  nominal  penalty  of  lis.,  in- 
cluding costs.    A  case  for  appeal  was  stated. 

Merchandise  Marks  Act,  1897. 
Spurious  Beecham's  Pills. 

At  the  Thames  Police  Court  on  October  1,  before  Mr. 
John  Dickinson,  the  Stipendiary,  Bell  &  Co.,  chemists  and 
druggists,  100  Commercial  Road,  Stepney,  were  summoned 
for  having  on  September  23  sold  to  John  Norris  twopenny- 
worth  of  pills  to  which  a  fake  trade-description  was 
applied,  contrary  to  the  provisions  of  the  Act.  Mr. 
Margetts,  solicitor,  appeared  on  behalf  of  Messrs. 
Thomas  Beecham,  St.  Helens,  the  prosecutors,  and  Mr. 
Philps  (representing  Mr.  G.  H.  Young,  solicitor)  was 
for  the  defence.  Mr.  J.  A.  Lockwood,  by  whom  the  in- 
formation was  placed,  also  attended. 

Mr.  Philps  explained  that  Mr.  Marcus  Woolf  Cohen,  the 
principal  of  Bell  &  Co.,  being  under  the  impression  that 
the  summons  was  answerable  at  two  o'clock  instead  of 
11.30  a.m.,  was  not  present.  His  manager,  Mr.  A.  H. 
Hill,  was  in  attendance,  however,  and  was  prepared  to 
tender  a  plea  of  guilty  and  have  the  case  disposed  of  in 
that  court. 

Mr.  Dickinson  said  he  had  no  power  to  agree  to  Mr. 
Philps's  suggestion  in  the  absence  of  the  actual  defendant. 
He  was  willing  to  adjourn  the  case  on  the  usual  under- 
standing as  to  additional  expenses. 

Mr.  Margetts  expressed  his  willingness  to  consent  to  an 
adjournment,  but  added  that  he  would  insist  on  a  sub- 
stantial sum  for  expenses.  Mr.  Moss,  who  controlled  the 
manufacture  of  the  pills  for  Messrs.  T.  Beecham,  had 
travelled  from  St.  Helens,  and  would  have  to  remain  in 
London. 

Evidence  having  been  given  that  the  summons  was  duly 
served  upon  Mr.  Cohen,  Mr.  Dickinson  adjourned  the  case 
to  October  3. 

When  the  case  was  called  on  Monday  a  lady,  attired  in 
deep  mourning,  appeared  in  front  of  the  dock,  and  in  reply 
to  Mr.  Young,  who  defended,  gave  her  name  as  Brenda 
Cohen,  and  described  herself  as  the  wife  of  Marcus  Woolf 
Cohen.  Answering  Mr.  Dickinson,  Mrs.  Cohen  stated  that 
the  business  of  Bell  &  Co.  was  her  own,  and  that  she  was 
solely  responsible  for  its  conduct  and  management. 

Mr.  Young  explained  that  the  business  was  transferred 
to  Mrs.  Cohen  under  a  marriage  settlement ;  and  requested 
that  her  name  should  be  substituted  in  the  summons  for 
that  of  her  husband.    This  request  was  agreed  to. 

The  Clerk  having  explained  that  she  had  the  right  to 
elect  whether  she  would  be  tried  by  a  judge  and  jury,  or 
in  that  court,  Mrs.  Cohen  said  her  desire  was  that  the 
case  should  be  disposed  of  there  and  then. 

Mr.  Young  tendered  a  plea  of  guilty,  and  pleaded  as  an 
extenuating  circumstance  that  his  client  knew  nothing  of 
the  transaction  which  culminated  in  the  charge  against 
her,  although,  unfortunately,  she  was  responsible  for  it. 
He  assured  his  Worship  that  there  was  no  intention  of 
"  passing  off. " 

Mr.  Margetts  explained  that  the  pills  in  question  were, 


with  several  other  articles,  purchased  at  defendant's  shop 
on  behalf  of  Messrs.  Beecham.  At  the  request  of  the  pur- 
chaser an  invoice  was  made  out  by  the  assistant,  on  whdeta 
the  pills  were  described  as  Beecham's.  On  being  examined. 
by  one  of  the  representatives  of  the  firm,  the  pills  were  at 
once  seen  to  be  spurious.  During  September  two  other 
purchases  of  pills  were  made  at  the  shop  on  behalf  of 
Messrs.  Beecham,  and  on  each  occasion  pills  which  were- 
not  theirs  were  given.  A  search-warrant  was  applied  for 
and  granted,  and  when  Dectective-Sergeant  Lesson  and  Mr_ 
J.  A.  Lockwood,  a  travelling  inspector  in  the  employ  of 
Messrs.  Beecham,  went  to  the  shop  to  enforce  it,  they 
saw  Mr.  Hill,  the  manager,  who  said  that  he  was  respon- 
sible for  anything  that  took  place  in  the  shop.  He  also- 
admitted  selling  pills  other  than  Beecham's  when  they 
were  asked  for.  In  a  drawer  behind  the  counter  there- 
were  several  of  Beecham's  boxes  containing  pills  which-' 
were  spurious.  Mr.  Hill  pointed  to  a  large  bottle  whicla 
contained  these  pills,  and  remarked,  "  These  are  also  what 
I  fill  the  boxes  from,  and  sell  as  Beecham's." 

Mr.  Young  :  My  case  is  that  Mr.  Hill  made  a  mistake., 
and  that  what  he  did  was  quite  unintentional.  My  client: 
knew  nothing  about  the  matter,  and  she  has  to  trust  the 
manager  for  everything.  We  generally  sell  Beecham's; 
when  they  are  asked  for.  The  pills  which  were  sold  in 
this  instance  represented  old  stock,  and  the  mistake  oc- 
curred in  their  being  put  into  Beecham's  boxes. 

Mr.  Dickinson  :  How  long  has  Hill  conducted  the- 
business  ? 

Mr.  Young  :  Since  April  last.  The  sale  was  quite  un- 
intentional. 

Mr.  Dickinson  :  But  I  understand  that  there  were  three- 
instances  where  the  same  "unintentional"  mistake  was- 
made,  and  each  of  them  was  made  upon  the  same  pur- 
chasers.   The  first  might  have  been  an  accident,  the  second 
probably  was  not,  and  the  third  certainly  was  not. 

Mr.  Young  :  Yes ;  but  the  pills  got  into  the  wrong  box,, 
and  there  were  very  few  sales  in  September. 

Mr.  Dickinson  :  How  can  the  manager  thus  excuse  him- 
self— by  keeping  old  boxes  ?  There  were  the  boxes  fro 
which  were  the  genuine  pills,  and  each  of  them  has  an 
Inland  Revenue  stamp  attached.  These  had  been  emptied? 
and  other  pills  put  in  them.  To  say  the  least,  this  shows; 
extreme  carelessness  on  the  part  of  the  manager.  It  is- 
always  a  feature  of  these  cases — carelessness.  It  is  always 
an  excuse  that  an  old  box  has  been  kept,  or  that  an  assistant 
or  shop-boy  inadvertently  made  a  mistake.  But  that  excuse- 
won't  do.  The  fine  is  seven  guineas  and  three  guineas 
costs.  ,< 

Mr.  Margetts  :  What  is  to  be  done  with  the  spurious; 
pills  which  were  seized  in  the  shop  ? 

Mr.  Young  :  Oh  !  you  can  keep  them.  Do  what  you  like- 
with  them. 

Mr.  Margetts  :  Here,  then,  Sergeant,  you  can  take  them.- 
They  may  be  found  good  for  police  officers.  (Laughter.) 

Pharmacy  Act,  1868. 

Partnership  in  Scotland. 

Before  Sheriff  Young  at  Aberdeen  on  October  o,  Alfred' 
Swan,  19  Hadden  Street,  Aberdeen,  was  charged,  at  the- 
instance  of  the  Registrar,  under  the  Act  with  having,  oni 
May  13,  kept  open  shop  for  retailing,  dispensing,  and  com- 
pounding poisons,  by  selling  to  George  Forbes  a  mixture- 
containing  a  quantity  of  strychnine  and  a  compound  con- 
taining a  quantity  of  chloroform.  Accused  pleaded  not", 
guilty.  Mr.  A.  C.  Morison  appeared  for  the  prosecution,, 
and  Mr.  G.  M.  Aitken,  solicitor,  for  the  defendant. 

John  R.  Hill,  pharmaceutical  chemist,  Assistant  Secretary 
of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  deposed  that  the  name  of 
Alfred  Swan  did  not  appear  on  the  Register  of  Chemists  andJ 
Druggists.  He  had  instructed  ex-Inspector  Forbes  to  take- 
the  prescriptions  to  Swan's  shop  to  be  dispensed,  and  while 
that  was  being  done  witness  himself  went  into  the  shop  and 
asked  for  a  bottle  of  chlorodyne.  The  defendant  said  he- 
would  give  him  a  mixture  of  his  own  which  would  be  more 
suitable.  Witness  also  purchased  a  packet  of  sulphur  and' 
a  packet  of  cream  of  tartar.  The  label  contained  the  name- 
of  Swan's  Drug-stores.  The  shop  was  furnished  as  a? 
chemist  and  druggist's  shop.  The  next  day  (May  13)  he- 
went  with  Forbes  to  the  shop  and  got  the  bottles  containing: 
the  compounds  asked  for  in  the  prescription.  Defendant 


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39 


.attended  to  Mr.  Forbes.  The  medicines  had  been  in  witness's 
possession  since.  The  analysis  of  the  contents  of  the  bottles 
s  showed  that  they  were  in  conformity  with  the  prescription. 
There  was  considerably  more  than  a  full  dose  of  poison  in 
■one  of  the  bottles. 

Joseph  Tait,  Ph.C,  said  the  contents  of  the  bottles  were 
iin  conformity  with  the  prescription. 

Ex-Inspector  Forbes  spoke  to  presenting  the  prescriptions 
.  and  to  receiving  the  poisons. 

John  Forsyth,  cashier  with  Messrs.  William  Patterson  & 
:  Sons,  wholesale  druggists,  gave  evidence  as  to  the  amount 
•of  poisons  sold  by  his  firm  to  Mr.  Swan  between  October 
1909  and  May  1910. 

Mr.  Aitken  stated  that  the  defence  was  that  Mr.  Simp- 
son was  a  partner  with  Mr.  Swan,  and  that  as  a  qualified 

•  chemist  he  dispensed  the  poisons. 

Defendant,  in  evidence,  stated  that  he  was  thirty-two 
years  of  age,  and  had  been  an  assistant  chemist  for  eighteen 
years.  He  started  business  in  November  1909,  entering 
into  an  agreement  with  Mr.  James  Simpson,  chemist  and 

•  druggist,  whereby  Mr.  Simpson  would  make  up  the  prescrip- 
tions containing  poisons.    On  the  occasion  in  question  he 

knew  it  was  "  a  catch."  He  told  Mr.  Forbes  it  would  take 
■some  time  to  make  up  the  preparation,  and  that  if  he  cared 

at  would  be  sent  on.  Witness  copied  the  prescription  in  the 
^prescription-book,  wrote  the  labels  and  handed  them  to  Mr. 

Simpson,  who  made  up  the  preparation.  Witness  saw  him 
■  do  it.  It  had  been  the  practice  in  their  partnership  for  Mr. 
Simpson  to  make  up  all  the  poisons. 

Mr.  Simpson,  in  evidence,  stated  that  the  partnership  was 

•  only  a  verbal  agreement.  Witness  was  to  have  one-sixth 
-of  the  partnership.  He  attended  the  shop  on  Mondays, 
'Tuesdays,  Wednesdays,  and  Thursdays  from  2  in  the  after 
noon  till  about  8.20,  with  an  hour  off  between  5  and  6  for 
"tea.  On  Friday  he  was  in  the  shop  between  12  and  about 
;B.30,  and  on  Saturdays  practically  all  day.  He  was  engaged 
•at  his  business  as  a  printer's  reader  from  8.30  in  the  evening 
till  5  in  the  morning.  He  made  up  the  prescriptions  in  ques 
tion.  Cross-examined,  witness  said  he  got  12s.  out  of  the 
Ibusiness  every  week.  He  had  not  got  any  share  of  the 
iprofits  yet  because  the  balance-sheet  had  not  been  made  up 

He  had  looked  into  the  accounts,  and  was  satisfied  that  there 
■was  a  profit.  There  was  no  written  agreement  between 
vthem,  but  they  understood  each  other.  He  had  not  spoken 
;about  the  agreement  to  anyone. 

Sheriff  Young,  in  giving  judgment,  said  :  The  case  cer 
ttainly  appears  to  be  somewhat  narrow ;  but,  on  the  whole 

I  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  charge  against 
'•the  accused  in  this  complaint  has  been  established.  It 

is  said  that  he  kept  open  shop  in  these  premises  at 

19  Hadden  Street,  Aberdeen,  and  there  sold  the  poisons 
•that  are  particularly  mentioned.    There  can  be  no  doubt 

•  of  this,  I  think,  that  on  the  evidence  before  us,  he  and  no 
•other  person  was  attending  to  the  shop.    His  own  name 

gave  the  title  to  the  business,  no  other  than  he  had 
"licence  to  sell  proprietary  articles,  for  he  had  the  licence 
nn  his  own  name  as  applicable  to  the  particular  premises 
-which  he  occupied.  In  like  manner  it  was  in  his  name 
"that  the  licence  to  sell  methylated  spirits  stood,  and  it  is 
■perfectly  plain,  I  think,  that  he  and  he  alone  made  applica 
'tion  for  supplies  for  the  business,  and  he  alone  took  poisons 

from  wholesale  firms  into  stock  in  his  premises.  I  am 
•quite  unable  to  say  that  there  existed  a  partnership  between 

Mr.  Swan  and  Mr.  Simpson.    I  am  bound  to  advert  to  the 

fact  which  tells  so  strongly  against  the  defence,  that  there 
ris  absent  here,  apart, from  what  they  say,  that  very  kind 

•  of  evidence  which  we  would  expect  to  exist  if  a  real 
partnership  existed  between  them.  I  should  expect  you  to 
have  some  outside  party  who  would  have  been  able  to 
"tell  us  that  during  these  months  he  or  they  had  dealt  with 
the  partnership,  and  had  treated  the  business  as  being 

•  carried  on  not  by  a  single  individual,  but  by  two  gentle 
men  in  company.  Evidence  of  that  kind  is  entirely  absent 
-and  I  do  not  think  I  could  safely  say  that  such  a  -partner 

•  ship  existed.    I  shall  therefore  find  the  case  proven,  an 
-the  whole  question  will  then  be  for  me  to  determine  what 
-penalty  I  shall  impose.    I  suppose  this  case  is  brought  for 
~the  purpose  of  giving  a  warning. 

Mr.  Morison  :  I  am  afraid  I  am  bound  to  say  that  this 
-is  a  case  which  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  regard  as 
deliberate  attempt  to  contravene  the  terms  of  the  statute 


This  man  knew  that  he  was  not  qualified.  It  is  exceed- 
ingly hard  for  men  who  are  qualified  that  they  should  have 
to  compete  with  those  who  are  not. 

Mr.  Aitken  :  It  is  a  kind  of  trades  union. 
Mr.  Morison  :  It  is  a  great  danger  to  the  public.    It  is 
uite  easy  to  see  how  cases  of  this  kind  lead  to  fatalities. 
The  Sheriff  ordered  accused  to  pay  a  fine  of  51.  or  go 
o  prison  for  twenty  days,  directing  the  penalty  to  go  to 
the  prosecution  towards  the  expenses  of  the  case. 

Sale  of  Food  and  Drugs  Acts. 

Zinc  Ointment  foe  White-precipitate  Ointment. 
On  Tuesday,  October  4,  before  Mr.  H.  Heldmann,  J. P., 
and  other  Justices,  sitting  at  Brentford,  Middlesex,  a 
summons  was  heard  under  Section  6  of  the  1875  Act,  charg- 
ing Charles  Humble,  drug-store  keeper,  286  High  Street, 
Old  Brentford,  with  having  on  September  2  sold  to  the 
prejudice  of  the  purchaser  a  drug  purporting  to  be  white- 
precipitate  ointment  which  was  not  of  the  nature  and  sub- 
stance demanded,  as  it  consisted  entirely  of  zinc  oint- 
ment. Defendant,  who  pleaded  guilty,  was  represented  by 
Mr.  Charles  Robinson,  solicitor. — Mr.  R.  A.  Robinson, 
jun.,  barrister-at-law,  who  prosecuted,  stated  that  in  his 
opinion  the  object  of  the  sale  was  to  evade  the  risk  of 
penalties  under  the  Pharmacy  Act,  as  defendant,  not  being 
a  qualified  chemist,  was  not  entitled  to  sell  white-precipi- 
tate ointment,  a  scheduled  poison.  It  appeared  that  the 
purchase  was  made  by  a  youth  named  Halliwell,  who  had 
handed  Mr.  Humble  a  written  order  for  a  "  cake  of  Wright's 
oal-tar  soap  and  7>d.  worth  of  white-precipitate  ointment." 
Zinc  ointment  was  supplied  by  defendant  in  a  box  without 
any  label. — Mr.  C.  Robinson  admitted  the  facts,  but  denied 
Mr.  R  A.  Robinson's  statement  that  zinc  ointment  is  useless 
for  treating  verminous  heads.  He  added  that  white-pre- 
cipitate ointment  is  a  dangerously  strong  article,  and  that 
zinc  ointment  is  a  milder  preparation  having  similar  uses.— 
A  fine  of  21.,  with  17s.  6d.  costs,  was  imposed. 


Bankruptcy  Report. 

Re  William  Rickard,  Filey,  Chemist  and  Druggist. — The 
public  examination  was  held  at  the  Scarborough  Bankruptcy 
Court  on  October  4,  when  the  particulars  as  reported  in  our 
issue  of  October  1,  p.  508,  were  repeated.  In  his  deficiency 
account  he  had  put  the  takings  latterly  at  the  Queen  Street 
shop  at  6/.,  and  at  the  Johns  Street  shop  at  8;.  The  Official 
Receiver  pointed  out  that  in  1906  the  sum  of  1,070?.  was  paid 
into  the  bank,  and  in  1907  838/.  Debtor  replied  :  "  There  is 
probably  some  borrowed  money  included  in  that— from  the 
bank.".  The  Official  Receiver:  In  1908  the  sum  was  975/.. 
in  1909  785/.,  and  in  June  1910  you  paid  193/.  into  the  bank, 
and  in  the  previous  June  348/.  Debtor  :  Yes,  there  was  a  big 
drop.  Proceeding,  debtor  attributed  the  drop  to  competition 
on  the  part  of  other  shops,  which  meant  cutting  the  prices.  In  .' 
addition,  he  had  not  been  well  for  some  time  past.  There 
had  been  ten  children,  and  six  were  living.  He  had  felt 
uncomfortable  for  some  time,  and  had  borrowed  money  to 
endeavour  to  go  on.  It  amounted  to  this— that  he  had  been 
trying  to  keep  afloat  a  sinking  ship.  The  furniture  had  been 
given  to  his  wife  by  her  mother,  and  his  wife- claimed  it. 
Apart  from  a  legacv  he  had  had  from  his  father,  he  had  no 
further  interest,  but  his  wife  had  cottages  left  her  bringing 
in  about  81.  a  quarter.  Three  of  the  children  were  under  the 
a"-e  of  fourteen.  The  examination  was  closed.  The  follow- 
ing are  creditors :  Bleasdale,  Ltd.,  York  (57/.) ;  Wm.  FoKptt, 
Thirsk  (39/.);  Duncan,  Flockhart  &  Co.,  Edinburgh  (14/.); 
Hirst,  Brooke  &  Hirst,  Ltd..  Leeds  (10/.);  Mrs.  W  G.  Long. 
Filey  (266/.)  ;  Lofthouse  &  Saltmer,  Hull  (72/.) ;  S.  Maw,  Son 
&  Sons,  London  (13/.);  Stephen  &  Martin,  Hull  (38/.). 

Gazette. 


Partnerships  Dissolved. 

Boswell,  A.,  and  Bull,  G.  V.,  physicians,  etc..  Ashbourne, 

Derbyshire,  under  the  style  of  Boswell  &  Bull. 
Griffik,  M.  L.,  and  Lynch,  S.  F.,  physicians,  etc.,  Plymouth, 
under  the  style  of  Drs.  Griffin  &  Lynch. 

The  Bankruptcy  Acts,  1883  and  1890. 
Receiving  Obdebs. 
Naylor,  Edward  Alfred,  Oxton,  BirkenheacJ,  late  Tran- 

mere,  Birkenhead,  chemist. 
Ruck,  William,  Pickering,  medical  practitioner. 


Index  Folio  541 


40 


THE  CHEMIST  AND  DRUGGIST 


October  8,  1910 


Birth. 


Mavoh.— At  Hightown,  Crewe,  on  October  4,  the  wife 
of  J.  Mavor,  chemist  and  druggist,  of  a  daughter. 


Marriages. 


Bagley— Catteeson  —  At  Roath  parish  church,  Cardiff 
on  October  1,  Edward  H.  Bagley,  of  Messrs.  Bagley  &  Co.' 
druggists'  sundriesmen,  of  Cardiff,  to  Bessie,  daughter  of 
the  late  Mt.  Thos.  Catterson,  of  Cardiff. 

Claeke— Peeey.—  At  the  Parish  Church,  Bradford-on- 
Avon,  on  October  1,  by  the  Be  v.  W.  Mereweather,  Vicar, 
assisted  by  the  Rev.  W.  Noel,  Vicar  of  Christ  Church^ 
Frank  Clarke,  pharmacist,  to  Gertrude  May,  elder 
daughter  of  Mr.  Robert  Perry,  Bradford-on-Avon. 

Unswoeth— Hebon.—  At  Second  Presbyterian  Church, 
Ballynahinch,  co.  Down,  on  September  16,  by  the  Rev.' 
R.  G.  Milling,  B.D.,  assisted  by  the  Rev.  J.  Coulson,  the 
Rev.  W.  S.  Heron  and  the  Rev.  George  Heron  (brothers  of 
the  bride),  Thomas  Unsworth,  registered  druggist,  Ballyna- 
hinch, to  Sarah  Mary,  youngest  daughter  of  Mr.  J.  P. 
Heron,  Ballykine,  Ballynahinch. 


Deaths. 


Appleyaed.— At  76  Ryan  Street,  Bradford,  on  October  1, 
Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  Mr.  William  Appleyard,  chemist 
and  druggist,  and  mother  of  Mr.  Fredk.  Wm.  Appleyard, 
chemist  and  druggist,  Bradford,  aged  sixty-five. 

Assee.— On  October  5,  Mr.  William  Wotton  Asser,  of 
"  Oak  Lawn,"  Anerley,  S.E..  and  senior  partner  of  W.  W. 
Asser  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  colonial  brokers,  of  29  Mincing  Lane, 
E.C.,  aged  seventy-two.  The  deceased  had  for  many  years 
been  closely  connected  with  the  Mincing  Lane  coffee  trade, 
and  was  highly  respected. 

Bailey. — At  Plassy,  near  Limerick,  on  October  4,  sud- 
denly, Mr.  William  Wellington  Bailey,  rubber  magnate, 
financier,  and  sportsman,  aged  fifty-six.  Mr.  Bailey 
•was  one  of  the  first  to  recognise  the  possibilities  of  rubber 
planting  in  the  Malay  States,  and  his  success  eventually 
culminated  in  the  formation,  four  years  ago,  of  the  High- 
lands and  Lowlands  Para  Rubber  Co.,  Ltd.,  of  which  he 
was  a  director.  He  also  undertook  the  cultivation  of  the 
so-called  Johore  ipecacuanha,  first  at  Pengerang  Estate, 
Johore,  and  later  at  the  Highlands  and  Lowlands  estate  at 
Klang,  Selangor.  The  curious  fact  is  that  the  Highlands 
and  Lowlands  estate  is  the  only  one  that  has  been  success- 
ful with  ipecacuanha  cultivation  in  the  Straits  Settlements, 
its  failure  to  grow  on  a  commercial  scale  in  India  being 
almost  classic.  Incidentally  it  may  be  mentioned  that  a 
parcel  of  the  "W.W.B."  mark  was  offered  at  the  drug 
auctions  on  Thursday.  Having  acquired  a  large  fortune 
from  rubber,  Mr.  Bailey  arrived  in  this  country  early  in 
the  year,  taking  up  his  residence  in  Ireland.  He  was  well 
known  in  racing  circles,  the  City  and  Suburban  and  Royal 
Hunt  Cup  falling  to  his  colours. 

Buttees. — At  Johannesburg  on  September  5,  after  a  long 
illness,  Mrs.  Hull  Butters,  wife  of  Mr.  Robert  Butters, 
chemist  and  druggist.  The  funeral  took  place  on  Septem- 
ber 6  at  Braamfontein  Cemetery,  and  was  largely  attended 
by  members  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  among  whom 
were  Messrs.  A.  Macdonald  (President)',  Charles  Keir 
(Vice-President),  J.  H.  Dinwoodie,  W.  A.  J.  Cameron, 
R.  Q.  Leeds,  J.  Mam,  J.  Astell  Willson,  C.  Gerrish,  A. 
Rennie,  Lewis  Thomas,  E.  L.  Railing,  P.  W.  Drummond, 
E.  J.  Adcock,  W.  B.  Marshall,  J.  Christie,  and  R. 
McGeorge.  The  many  floral  tributes  received  included 
one  from  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  and  one  from  the 
Pharmacy  Board. 

Caemichael. — At  the  Pharmacy,  Leslie,  on  October  2, 
Emily  Clayton-Duthie,  wife  of  Mr.  John  Carmichael, 
pharmacist,  71  High  Street  West,  Leslie,  Fife. 


Gibbons. — On  September  25,  Mr.  George  Gibbons, 
chemist  and  druggist,  Adwy,  near  Wrexham,  aged  seventy- 
five.  Mr.  Gibbons  was  an  assistant  for  many  years  to  the 
late  Dr.  Edward  Davies,  Coedpoeth,  near  Wrexham,  but 
latterly  conducted  a  business  in  Adwy  as  a  chemist.  He 
leaves  a  wife  and  two  daughters. 

Myles. — At  the  Medical  Hall.  Birr,  on  September  29, 
Albert  Stuart,  infant  son  of  Mr.  John  P.  Myles,  L.P.S.I. 

Philp. — At  Gwendrock,  Wadebridge,  Cornwall,  on  Sep- 
tember 26,  Mrs.  Philp,  widow  of  Mr.  Joseph  Philp, 
chemist  and  druggist,  of  Wadebridge,  and  formerly  of 
Paddock  Wood,  Kent. 

Smith. — On  September  17,  Mr.  Samuel  Allen  Smith, 
102  The  Parade,  Leamington,  aged  seventy-nine. 

Smith. — On  September  18,  Mr.  James  Singer  Smith, 
chemist  and  druggist,  Bletchingley,  Surrey,  aged  eighty- 
seven. 

Stevens. — At  Bournemouth,  on  September  17,  Mr.  Peter 
Augustus  Stevens,  chemist  and  druggist,  72  Mansfield' 
Road,  Haverstock  Hill,  London,  N.W.,  aged  seventy- 
seven. 


Recent  Will. 


Me.  Oscar  Guttmann,  M.I.C.E.,  F.C.S.,  who  died  as  the 
result  of  a  taxicab  accident  at  Brussels  on  August  2,  left 
estate  in  the  United  Kingdom  o'f  the  gross  value  of  3,510/., 
with  net  personality  2,985/. 


Deeds  of  Arrangement. 


Black,  George,  109  Cromac  Street,  Belfast,  Druggist. 
(See  C.  <£•  D.  October  1,  p.  503).— The  creditors  include: 
D.  &  W.  Gibbs,  Ltd.  (4/.  0s.  5d.) ;  Fassett  &  Johnson 
(21.  Is.  lOiZ.) ;  Lorimer  &  Co.  (5/.  8s.  M.) ;  Gusta/v  Boehm 
(8/.  5s.  Id.) ;  E.  E.  Jackson  (12s.  9d.) ;  John  Clarke  &  Co.,  Ltd., 
Belfast  (9s.  %d.) ;  T.  McMullen  &  Co.,  Belfast  (38/.  2s.  5d.) ; 
J.  Townsend  &  Sons,  Exeter  (6s.  Id.) ;  Ayrton,  Saunders  &  Co., 
Ltd.,  Liverpool  (7/.  8s.  5d.) ;  Blyton,  Astley  &  Co.,  Manchester 
(21.  10s.  Id.). 

Walter,  William,  trading  as  H.  Walter  &  Sons,  377  and 
379  Wandsworth  Road,  London,  S.W.,  and  residing  at 
417  Wandsworth  Road,  S.W.,  Wholesale  and  Retail  Oilman.— 
Trustee,  Mr.  F.  French,  10  to  12  Eastcheap,  London,  E.C. 
Dated  September  20 ;  filed  September  24.  Secured  creditors, 
1,734/. ;  liabilities  unsecured,  4,587/. ;  estimated  net  assets, 
417/.  The  creditors  include  :  Bovril,  Ltd.  (60/.) ;  J.  Crosfield 
&  Co.,  Ltd.  (110/.) ;  Edward  Cook  &  Co.,  Ltd.  (11/.) ;  Corneille, 
David  &  Co.  (23/.) ;  Fassett  &  Johnson  (10/.) ;  J.  Oakey  &  Sons, 
Ltd.  (53/.) ;  Price's  Patent  Candle  Co.,  Ltd.  (59/.) ;  Patent 
Borax  Co.,  Ltd.  (44/.);  St.  George's  Chemical  Co.  (10/.). 

Ballard,  William,  trading  as  Davies  &  Co.,  393,  559  and 
560  Commercial  Road  East,  London  E.,  and  residing  at 
Bawkhurst,  Kent,  Chemist.— Trustee :  G.  M.  White,  14  Old 
Jewry  Chambers,  London,  E.C,  C.A.  Dated  September  23; 
filed  September  28.  Secured  creditors,  710/. ;  liabilities  un- 
secured, 1,720/. ;  estimated  net  assets,  540/.  Among  the 
creditors  are :  Evans  Sons  Lescher  &  Webb,  Ltd.  (477/.);  F. 
Newbery  &  Sons  (384/.) ;  exors.  of  Mrs.  M.  Ballard  (300/.)  ; 
Allen  &  Hanburys,  Ltd.  (15/.) ;  Wright  &  Co.  (11/.) ;  Meggeson 
&  Co.  (40/.) ;  Bartlett  Hooper  &  Co.  (24/.) ;  F.  S.  Cleaver  & 
Sons,  Ltd.  (13/.)  ;  D.  &  W.  Gibbs,  Ltd.  (10/.);  Breidenbach  & 
Co.  (9/.) ;  Ed.  Cook  &  Co.,  Ltd.  (8/.) ;  Ashton  &  Parsons,  Ltd. 
(6/.) ;  H.  C.  Quelch  &  Co.  (5/.)  ;  G.  S.  Mumford  &  Sons  (5/.); 
Express  Developing  Co.  (6/.) ;  J.  Townsend  &  Sons,  Exeter 
(14/.) ;  Harrison  &  Waide,  Leeds  (11/.) ;  C.  E.  Fulford,  Ltd., 
Leeds  (6/.)  ;  J.  Richardson  &  Co.,  Leicester,  Ltd.  (11/.) ;  A.  de> 
St.  Dalmas  &  Co.,  Leicester  (6/.) ;  Thomas  Beecham,  St. 
Helens  (31/.) ;  Erasmic  Co.,  Ltd.,  Warrington  (7/.). 


Chinese  Albumen  and  Egg-yolk. — Of  the  greatly  increased 
export  of  albumen  and  egg-yolk  from  Hankow,  the  ports 
Antwerp  and  Hamburg  were  the  chief  declared  destinations  in 
1909,  the  former  taking  4,983  and  15,883  cwt.,  and  the  latter 
5,373  and  23,326  cwt.  The  supply  of  eggs  seems  to  be  in- 
exhaustible, and  the  price  in  gold  is  kept  down  by  the  con- 
stantly falling  exchange  of  copper  currency.  The  total  export 
of  albumen  from  Hankow  was  13,575  cwt.  (47,256/.),  against 
6.395  cwt.  (27,644/.)  in  1908,  and  of  egg-yolk  the  exports  were 
53,341  cwt.  (30,921/.),  against  32,163  cwt.  "(18,248/.)  in  1908. 


Index  Folio  542 


October  8,  1910 


THE  CHEMIST  AND  DRUGGIST 


41 


New  Companies  Registered. 

The  letters  P.C.  mean  Private  Company  within  the  meaning  ot 
the  Companies  Act,  1907,  and  R.O.,  Registered  Office. 


Cuban  (Patent)  Syndicate,  Ltd.  (P.C.).— Capital  15,000/. 
Objects :  To  carry  on  the  business  of  planters  of  and  dealers 
in  rubber,  tea.  coffee,  tobacco,  cocoanuts,  gums,  sugar,  cocoa, 
spices,  cinchona,  opium,  rice,  padi,  cereals,  timber,  etc.,  in 
Cuba. 

Anti- Vivisection  Hospital,  the  Batteesea  General  Hos- 
pital (Incorporated).— Registered  as  a  company  limited  by 
guarantee,  with  an  unlimited  number  of  members,  each 
liable  for  11.  in  the  event  of  winding-up,  to  carry  on  the  busi- 
ness indicated  by  the  title. 

Sansol,  Ltd.  (P.C.).— Capital  3,000/.,  in  11.  shares.  Objects  : 
To  carry  on  the  business  of  manufacturers  of  and  dealers  in 
a  hair-restorer  known  as  "  Sansol  "  and  other  hair-prepara- 
tions, perfumery,  etc.  The  subscribers  are  T.  B.  Wildman 
and  C.  Wildman.    R.O.,  5  Changegate,  Keighley. 

Selphosa  Salt  Co.,  Ltd.  (P.C.).— Capital  1,250/.  Objects: 
To  carry  on  the  business  of  manufacturers  of  "Selphosa  "  table 
salt  and  other  articles  of  food,  etc.,  and  to  adopt  an  agree- 
ment with  L.  Anidjah.  The  first  directors  are  L.  Anidjah 
(permanent  managing  director),  J.  Luxton,  and  A.  E.  Hyde. 
R.O.,  81  Essex  Road,  N. 

Lecithin,  Ltd.  (P.C.).— Capital  1,500/.,  in  1/.  shares. 
Objects  :  To  carry  on  the  business  of  general  merchants,  manu- 
facturers, importers  and  exporters  of  and  dealers  in  foods, 
medicines,  drugs,  perfumery,  proprietary  articles,  etc.,  and 
to  adopt  an  agreement  with  N.  E.  Robins.  The  first  directors 
are  W.  H.  Wreford  (chairman)  and  N.  E.  Robins  (managing 
director).  Remuneration,  150/.  per  annum  and  10  per  cent. 
of  the  net  profits  over  1,000/.,  divisible.  R.O.,  15,  16,  and  17 
Eldon  Street,  E.C. 

Remedies,  Ltd.  (P.C.).— Capital  5,000/.,  in  1/.  shares. 
Objects  :  To  carry  on  the  business  of  manufacturers  of  and 
dealers  in  medicines,  medical  preparations,  drugs  and  oint- 
ments, chemists,  druggists,  etc.,  to  acquire  certain  medicinal 
and  other  preparations  known  as  "  Swaree,"  "  Eleksa,"  and 
"  Solavo  "  from  J.  S.  Reed,  of  Plymouth,  together  with 
certain  recipes  and  information  relating  to  the  manufacture 
and  the  right  to  manufacture  and  deal  in  the  said  prepara- 
tions, and  to  adopt  an  agreement  with  A.  Swanger  and  J.  S. 
Reed.  The  first  subscribers  and  directors  are  J.  S.  Reed  and 
A.  Swanger.    R.O.,  8  Duke  Street,  Adelphi,  W.C. 

G.  T.  W.  Newsholme,  Ltd.  (P.C.).— Capital  10,000/.,  in  1/. 
shares  (5,000  preference).  Objects:  To  take  over  the  business 
of  a  pharmaceutical  and  manufacturing  chemist  carried  on 
by  G.  T.  W.  Newsholme  at  27  High  Street,  Sheffield.  The  first 
subscribers  are  G.  T.  W.  Newsholme,  27  High  Street,  Shef- 
field, pharmaceutical  chemist ;  J.  Austen,  27  High  Street,  Shef- 
field, pharmaceutical  chemist;  J.  P.  Sharman,  7  St.  James' 
Road,  Sheffield,  estate  agent,  etc. ;  and  W.  J.  Booth,  43  Mona 
Road,  Sheffield,  commercial  traveller.  The  first  directors 
are  G.  T.  W.  Newsholme  and  J.  Austen.  G.  T.  W.  Newsholme 
is  chairman,  and  may  retain  office  while  holding  2,000  pre- 
ference or  ordinary  shares.  J.  Austen  may  retain  office  while 
holding  1,000  preference  or  ordinary  shares.  Remuneration 
of  G.  T.  W.  Newsholme,  400/.  per  annum,  divisible.  Regis- 
tered office  :  27  High  Street,  Sheffield. 

Company  News. 

Aerators,  Ltd. — The  directors  announce  an  interim  divi- 
dend of  6  per  cent,  per  annum,  free  of  income-tax,  on  the 
ordinary  shares  for  the  half-year. 

Evans  Sons  Lescher  &  Webb,  Ltd. — Warrants  for  the  divi- 
dend on  the  5  per  cent,  cumulative  preference  shares  for  the 
half-year  which  ended  on  September  30  have  been  posted. 

Sulphate  of  Ammonia  Co.,  Ltd. — A  notice  of  the  appoint- 
ment of  P.  Mason,  64  Gresham  Street,  E.G.,  as  receiver  or 
manager,  on  September  19,  1910,  under  powers  contained  in 
debenture  dated  November  3,  1909,  has  been  filed. 

Limited  Partnership. — D.  D.  D.  Co.,  vendors  of  a  patent 
medicine,  Bangor  House,  66  Shoe  Lane,  E.G.,  were  regis- 
tered on  September  26.  Partnership  for  ten  years  from 
September  1,  1910.  General  partner  :  T.  Burnell,  3  Darnlev 
Road,  Holland  Park,  W.  Limited  partners :  B.  E.  Page, 
116  Michigan  Street,  Chicago,  111.,  U.S.A..  and  R.  E.  Clare, 
66  Shoe  Lane,  E.C,  contributing  600/.  and  200/.  in  cash  re- 
spectively. 


Porto  Rico  Honey.— Apiculture  is  making  progress  in 
Porto  Rico;  about  100  barrels  were  shipped  to  New  York 
last  year,  and  it  is  expected  to  be  more  than  double  this  year. 
Prices,  on  an  average,  ruled  at  50c.  per  gal.  first  cost. 


Trade  Notes. 


"Business  Success." — Under  this  title  Mr.  Bernard 
Slack,  9  King  Street,  Wolverhampton,  publishes  a  pamphlet 
giving  particulars  of  the  several  departments  in  which  he 
advises  chemists  as  to  the  improvement  of  business. 

Mr.  John  Bolton  has  again  obtained  a  position  with. 
Messrs.  Armour  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  Atlantic  House,  Holborn 
Viaduct,  London,  E.C,  and  will  call  upon  London  pharma- 
cists on  their  behalf  to  submit  samples  and  prices  of 
Armour's  soaps. 

Corks. — With  further  reference  to  the  paragraph  which 
appeared  in  this  column  last  week,  Messrs.  N.  W.  Mitchell 
&  Sons,  Ltd.,  "  Bouchon  "  W'orks,  Limehouse,  E.,  in  their 
announcement  appearing  in  this  issue,  give  further  par- 
ticulars of  the  large  order  referred  to  by  us  last  week. 

Edwards'  Harlene  Co.,  95  and  96  High  Holborn, 
London,  W.C,  intimate  that  on  and  after  October  17  the 
minimum  retail  prices  of  "Harlene"  will  be  lOd.  for  the 
Is.  size,  2s.  Id.  for  the  2s.  6d.  size,  and  3s.  9d.  for  the 
4s.  6d.  size.  In  their  advertisement  in  this  issue  is  printed 
the  first  series  of  names  of  leading  stores  and  others  who 
have  agreed  to  maintain  these  prices. 

Messrs.  Wright,  Layman  &  Umney,  Ltd.,  Southwark, 
London,  S.E.,  have  issued  along  with  their  usual  monthly 
prices  current  of  chemicals,  drugs,  and  pharmaceutical 
preparations,  an  illustrated  quarto  list  of  packed  pharma- 
ceuticals for  retail  sale  by  pharmacists.  This  extends  to 
eighty-eight  pages,  and  is  beautifuly  printed,  and  the  illus- 
trations, although  reduced  in  size,  show  admirably  the 
nature  of  the  packages  offered. 

The  Erasmic  Co.,  Ltd.,  Warrington,  have  submitted  to 
us  particulars  of  their  new  profit-sharing  scheme  for 
chemists.  With  orders  of  21.,  41.,  or  61.  worth  of  goods  they 
are  giving  discounts  varying  from  10  per  cent,  to  15  per 
cent,  off  invoices,  thus  providing  the  retailer  with  33^  per 
cent,  profit,  although  the  retail  prices  are  protected  by  the 
P.A.T.A.  The  only  return  that  the  company  ask  is  that 
the  goods  shall  be  displayed  in  the  window  and  on  the 
counter  for  a  short  period.  We  would  suggest  to  our  readers 
that  they  should  write  to  the  company  at  Warrington  for 
the  printed  particulars  of  the  bonus  scheme,  which  also 
show  the  prices  of  the  soaps  and  other  specialties,  including 
perfumes,  which  form  the  purchase. 

"  Analax  "  is  the  name  of  a  new  laxative  in  the  form  of 
pastilles  which  has  been  patented  by  Mr.  R.  Demtith, 
68  Salusbury  Road,  West  Kilburn,  London,  N.W.  The 
pastilles  are  of  a  pretty 
pink  -  coloured  substance, 
crystallised  on  the  outside, 
and  are  put  up  in  decorated 
tin  boxes,  each  containing 
two  dozen.     The  pastilles 
are  quite  free  from  medi- 
cinal taste,  and  promise  to 
be    a    popular  domestic 
medicine,  both  on  account 
of  their  palatability  and 

efficacy.  There  is  no  question  of  the  fact  that  "  Ana- 
lax  "  is  a  reliable  laxative  which  acts  without  griping, 
and  the  combination  is  designed  to  regulate  the  bowels  as 
well  as  open  them.  The  article  is  on  the  P.A.T.A.  list  to 
sell  at  Is.  l^d.  per  box,  the  minimum  cash  price  being  Is., 
and  the  wholesale  price  leaves  30  per  cent,  profit  to  the 
retailer.  "Analax"  may  be  obtained  direct  from  the 
manufacturer  or  through  the  wholesale  houses. 

Past  and  Present. — The  British  Drug  Houses,  Ltd., 
Graham  Street,  London,  N.,  in  their  various  announce- 
ments published  in  the  C.  <b  D.  have  struck  a  decorative 
note  of  their  own.  For  the  P.  P. P.  chemicals  they  have 
designed  a  border  in  which  modern  chemical  apparatus 
(such  as  a  large  still,  a  centrifuge  drier,  and  a  filter- 
press)  are  contrasted  with  stills  used  in  the  eighteenth 
century,  the  latter  being  reproduced  from  wood  engravings 
of  the  period.  The  modern  apparatus  is  sketched  from, 
plant  in  the  Company's  new  laboratories.  It  is  a  difficult 
matter  to  produce  an  artistic  effect  from  such  materials,  but 
the  British  Drug  Houses  have  succeeded  well,  and  the 


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design  forms  a  fitting  frame  to  their  chemicals  of  the 
"pure  for  pharmaceutical  purposes"  specification. 

Messrs.  Stafford  Allen  &  Sons,  Ltd.,  Cowper  Street, 
Finsbury,  London,  E.C.,  in  a  new  essential-oil  price-list, 
include  for  the  first  time  in  their  history  certain  oils 
of  foreign  origin  which  cannot  be  made  in  England  to 
advantage.  This  innovation  has  enabled  Messrs.  Stafford 
Allen  &  Sons  to  improve  the  list  in  certain  respects.  The 
oik  are  arranged  alphabetically,  as  usual,  each  one  being 
immediately  followed  by  the  price  terms  (whether  discount 
or  net);  then  a  column  is  devoted  to  "Characteristics" 
and  another  to  "Remarks."  Thus  in  the  case  of  "Staf- 
ford's Russian  Anise  Oil,"  the  characteristics  are  "  S.G. 
@  20°  C.  0.975  to  0.990,  melting-point  15°  to  19°  C,"  and 
the  remarks,  "Distilled  from  Russian  fruit  Pimpinella 
Anisvm."  This  is  a  decided  advantage  to  buyers.  Of 
course  Messrs.  Stafford  Allen  deal  only  with  the  wholesale 
trade,  but  retail  buyers  of  oils  can  obtain  their  products 
through  any  wholesale  house  on  specification. 

A  Brief  Sketch  of  the  exhibit  of  Messrs.  Brady  & 
Martin,  Ltd.,  Newcastle-on-Tyne,  at  the  Brussels  Inter- 
national Exhibition  has  been  published.  It  is  a  well- 
illustrated  pamphlet,  beginning  with  a  graphic  account  of 
the  origin  of  the  Exhibition  and  the  participation  of  Great 
Britain  in  great  international  exhibitions.  It  is  illustrated 
with  two  excellent  engravings  of  the  British  Section. 
Then  follows  an  account,  with  illustrations,  of  Messrs. 
Brady  &  Martin's  own  exhibit,  which  embraces  many 
special  forms  of  scientific  apparatus  and  pharmaceutical 
preparations  of  all  kinds.  For  these  they  received  a 
Grand  Prix  and  two  diplomas  of  honour — one  of  the  latter 
for  instruments  and  appliances  used  in  medical  and  sur- 
gical work,  and  another  for  a  display  of  scientific  instru- 
ments for  higher  education  and  technical  research  work. 
The  exhibit  was  in  several  respects  unique,  and  this  illus- 
trated account  of  it  is  an  excellent  souvenir. 


Personalities. 

Notes  for  this  section  musi:  not  be  in  the  nature  of  advertisements, 
and  they  should  be  authenticated  when  sent  to  the  Editor. 


Dr.  Spence  Watson  has  been  elected  the  first  President 
of  Armstrong  College,  Newcastle,  under  the  new  con- 
stitution. 

Mr.  Harry  Kemp,  chemist,  Chorlton-cum-Hardy,  has 
resigned  his  seat  on  the  Manchester  City  Council  owing  to 
ill-health. 

Mr.  F.  Sarson,  pharmacist,  2  Palace  Avenue,  Paignton, 
has  been  appointed  Treasurer  of  the  Torbay  Lodge  of 
Freemasons. 

Mr.  Ernest  Gostling,  chemist's  assistant,  has  been 
elected  to  fill  a  casual  vacancy  on  the  Saxmundham  Urban 
District  Council. 

Mr.  F.  B.  Kilmer,  of  Messrs.  Johnson  &  Johnson,  New 
Brunswick,  N.J.,  has  been  paying  a  visit  to  the  London 
agency  of  the  company. 

Alderman  J.  R.  Birkett,  chemist  and  druggist,  has 
accepted  the  Morecambe  Town  Council's  invitation  to 
retain  the  Mayoralty  of  the  Borough  for  another  year. 

Mr.  T.  Howell  W.  Idris,  J.P.,  F.C.S.,  will  preside  at 
the  107th  anniversary  dinner  on  behalf  of  the  funds  of  the 
Licensed  Victuallers'  School  at  the  Hotel  Cecil  on 
October  25. 

Councillor  J.  V.  Mainprize,  chemist  and  druggist, 
Deputy-Mayor  of  Bridlington,  has  been  invited  by  the 
local  Town  Council  to  accept  the  Mayoralty  of  the  Borough 
on  November  9. 

Mr.  William  Yates,  pharmacist  and  optician,  67  Market 
Street,  Shaw,  near  Oldham,  was  elected  President  of  the 
Shaw  and  Crompton  Tradesmen's  Association  at  the  annual 
meeting  held  on  October  3. 

It  is  stated  in  well-informed  circles  that  the  successor  to 
Sir  Patrick  Manson  as  the  Principal  Medical  Adviser  to  the 
Department  of  the  Colonial  Secretary  will  be  Dr.  C.  Wilber- 
force  Daniels,  M.R.C.P.,  who  has  for  some  time  past  been 
acting  for  the  present  occupant  of  the  post.  Dr.  Daniels 
is  a  graduate  of  Cambridge  University  and  has  had  a  long 
Experience  in  various  parts  of  the  British  Empire  of  the 


treatment  of  tropical  diseases,  and  the  knowledge  thus- 
acquired  will  be  of  the  utmost  value  in  connection  with  the- 
work  of  the  Colonial  Office.  Dr.  Daniels  has  for  some  time 
past  been  director  of  the  London  School  of  Tnopical 
Medicine. 

The  late  Mrs.  Ernest  Cresswell,  who  was  a  Governor 
of  the  Latymer  Foundation,  took  a  keen  personal  interest, 
in  the  Boy  Scouts  belonging  to  the  school,  and! 
she  had  prepared  colours  for  them,  the  presenta- 
tion of  which  was  delayed  owing  to  her  death. 
On  Wednesday  evening,  October  5,  a  company  of 
four  or  five  hundred  assembled  in  the  Hammersmith  Town 
Hall,  when  Lady  Bull,  the  wife  of  Sir  William  Bull,  M.P.,- 
presented  the  colours,  after  they  had  been  consecrated  by 
the  Rev.  E.  S.  Duval,  the  Chaplain  of  the  Troop.  Mr. 
Thomas  Chamberlen,  J. P.,  presided,  and  addresses  were- 
given  by  him,  Sir  William  Bull,  and  Mr.  Ernest  CresswelL 
Proficiency  badges  and  special  prizes  were  presented  to  aa 
number  of  boys,  and  a  lantern  lecture  was  given  by  Mr.- 
J.  A.  Kyle  on  scouting. 


Winter  Session  oi  Chemists* 
Associations. 


Association  Presidents. 

Mr.  H.  Raithby  Procter,  the  new  President  of  the  Western' 
Pharmacists'  Association  of  London,  has  come  to  that  position- 
as  successor  to  a  line  of 
distinguished  pharmacists, 
and  as  one  who  has  done 
excellent  service  to  the 
Association  as  Secretary 
for  three  years.  He  is  one 
of  the  many  whom  Lincoln- 
shire has  given  to  phar- 
macy and  who  have  taken 
front  rank  in  metropolitan 
affairs.  After  his  educa- 
tion at  Boston  Grammar 
School  he  was  apprenticed 
to  Mr.  William  Gilliatt,  of 
that  town,  and  after  his 
apprenticeship  extended 
hie  experience  at  Newport 
Pagnell  with  Messrs.  T.  & 
F.  J.  Taylor,  in  London 
with  Mr.  Parson  C.  Baker, 
and  in  the  Isle  of  Wight 
with  Messrs.  Gibbe  & 
Gurnell,  Ryde.    He  passed 

the  Minor  examination  in  . 
July  1886,  and  three  years  later  commenced  business  on  hie- 
own  account  at  113  The  Grove,  Hammersmith,  where  he- 
still  is.  Mr.  Procter  takes  a  keen  interest  in  pharmaceutical! 
affairs,  and  many  who  attend  the  meetings  of  the  British 
Pharmaceutical  Conference  recall  his  pleasant  conversation 
and  wide  knowledge  of  affairs.  He  has  oqmmenced  his  year 
of  presidency  this  week  with  every  indication  of  success. 


Mr.  H 


Brief  Records. 

Torquay  Pharmacists'  Association.—  A  meeting  was 
held  on  September  26,  when  Messrs.  Bourne  (President), 
Newlyn,  Ness,  Knight,  Quant,  and  Ventham  (Hon.  Secretary^ 
attended.  Items  of  local  interest  affecting  pharmacy  were- 
discussed,  and  it  was  also  decided  to  recommend  that  Mr.  R. 
Horner  be  appointed  local  Divisional  Secretary. 

Manchester  Optical  Society.-The  1910-11  session  was* 
inaugurated  on  Wednesday  evening,  October  5,  with  a  con- 
versazione at  the  Albion  Hotel,  Manchester.  There  were 
about  seventy  ladies  present,  Mr.  J.  C.  Kidd  (President/ 
taking  the  chair.  The  artistes  including  Mies  B.  Faust  Mis<-: 
F  Charles,  Mr.  J.  H.  Franklin,  Mr.  H.  Charles,  Mr.  Wilfnct 
Ludlow,  Mr.  W.  A  Taylor,  and  Mr.  Mat  Matz. 

Society  of  Chemist-Opticians.— A  Council  meeting  was- 
held  at  St.  Bride  Institute,  London,  E.C.,  on  October  5, 
when  there  were  present  Messrs.  R.  Blanchford  (Vice-Presi- 
dent) in  the  chair,  G.  Curtis,  J.  R.  Cornish,  and  the  Hon. 
Secretary  (Mr.  J.  H.  Cuff).  The  following  gentlemen  were- 
elected  members:  Messrs.  P.  W.  Boughen,  Birkenhead;  H. 
Duncan,  Arbroath;  A.  J.  Kerrison,  Sunderland;  T.  Lamb,. 
London,  W. ;  T.  Mackenzie,  Inverness ;  and  J.  B.  Purvis, 
Bridlington.  The  following  were  appointed  the  General  Pur- 
poses Committee:  Messrs.  R.  Blanchford,  G.  Curtis,  F.'S- 
Horsey,  S.  W.  Woolley,  and  the  President  and  Hon.  Secre- 
tary.   The  remainder  of  the  business  was  taken  in  committee. 


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Dews  bury  Pharmacists  Association.— At  the  first 
jmeeting  of  the  session,  on  October  3,  there  were  present 
Messrs.  R.  Broadhcad  (in  the  chair),  A.  B.  Barker  (Heck- 
irnondwike),  S.  N.  Piekard  (Ossett),  J.  Rhodes  (Mirfield),  W. 
Blakeley  (Birstall),  R,  Gledhill,  G.  N.  Gutteridge,  G.  Butter- 
field,  R.  J.  H.  Day,  J.  Day,  and  G.  Walker  (Hon.  Secretary). 
A  letter  was  read  from  Messrs.  Fairchild  Bros.  &  Foster  re  the 
removal  of  the  embargo  restricting  the  sale  of  paropepton 
.-and  similar  preparations  to  holders  of  wine  licences.  Eventu- 
ally a  resolution  was  passed  similar  to  that  of  the  Torquay 
Association,  urging  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  to  approach 
•the  Board  of  Trade  on  the  matter.  It  was  decided  to  send 
tthe  resolution  to  the  Chemists'  Defence  Association  also.  Mr. 
Gutteridge  raised  the  question  as  to  whether  Messrs.  Coleman 
•&  Co.  should  be  approached  with  a  view  of  obtaining  more 
'profit  on  the  sale  of  Wincarnis.  Mr.  Barker  asked  why  the 
protected  price  should  not  be  raised.  Ultimately  it  was 
•decided  to  approach  Messrs.  Coleman  &  Co.  on  the  lines 
indicated  above. 

Leeds  Chemists'  Association.— The  opening  meeting 
•of  the  session  was  held  at  the  Grand  Restaurant,  Leeds,  on 
Wednesday  evening,  October  5,  Mr.  J.  H.  Beacock  (President) 
in  the  chair,  about  seventy  members  present.  The  President 
•gave  an  address,  in  the  course  of  which  he  wondered  whether 
it  was  true  that  they  were  much  better  off  than  were  the 
chemists  of  a  quarter  to  half  a  century  ago.  The  qualifying 
•examination  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  had  been  made 
much  more  difficult — so  difficult,  in  fact,  that  he  was  reminded 
of  Mr.  Meller's  description  of  learning  the  alphabet :  "  It  is 
•going  through  so  much  to  gain  so  little."  And  this  especially 
^seemed  the  case  when  they  remembered  the  small  amount  of 
•dispensing  some  chemists  got  and  the  little  opportunity  they 
Tiad  of  utilising  the  knowledge  in  that  practical  way.  He 
•considered  that  socially  and  financially  the  chemist  does  not 
in  consequence  occupy  an  enhanced  position,  at  least  not 
always.  Mr.  Beacock  then  touched  upon  efforts,  co-opera- 
tion'; etc.,  that  are  being  made  to  ameliorate  the  condition  of 
•chemists,  remarking  that  much  depends  upon  the  business 
ability  of  individuals. — Songs,  elocutionary  items,  and 
musical  selections  were  given  by  Messrs.  Swales,  Russell,  N. 
Whiteley,  S.  R.  Wyvill,  Eddison,  Bonsfield,  Batman,  Gold- 
thorpe,  S.  R.  Mundell,  Haw,  and  Mitchell.  The  meeting 
•was  a  remarkable  success. 

London  Chemists'  Association.— A  meeting  of  the 
•General  Purposes  Committee  was  held  at  19  Kennington 
'Terrace,  London,  S.E.,  on  October  4,  when  Mr.  J.  C.  Pentney 
was  elected  Chairman  and  Mr.  P.  Truman  (the  retiring 
•Chairman)  Vice-Chairman.  Mr.  Pentney,  in  returning  thanks 
for  the  honour  bestowed  upon  him,  said  that  he  regretted  the 
•choice  had  not  fallen  on  someone  who  could  devote  more 
time  and  energy  to  the  work  of  the  Association.  However, 
his  regard  for  the  welfare  of  chemists  was  as  great  as  ever, 
although  he  had  practically  retired.  Although  the  Lon- 
don Chemists'  Association  had  done  excellent  work  in  the 
past,  especially  in  parliamentary  matters,  there  still  remained 
much  to  be  done  in  regard  to  place  names,  such  as  pharmacy, 
dental  surgery,  etc.  Mr.  Truman  said  it  was  good  for  every 
Association  to  have  a  change  of  officers ;  he  would  continue 
Iris  work  for  the  Association,  but  he  regretted  to  see  so  little 
interest  taken  by  chemists  in  matters  affecting  their  calling. 
The  Honorary  Secretary,  Mr.  J.  Wellesley  Douglas,  called 
attention  to  the  meeting  of  the  London  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
at  which  was  introduced  the  subject  of  manufacturing  in 
"bond.  In  the  event  of  this  becoming  an  accomplished  fact, 
it  ocourred  to  him  that  the  wholesaler  would  be  placed  in 
a  preferential  position  in  regard  to  manufacturing  tinctures 
and  other  spirituous  preparations,  which  would  further  reduce 
the  number,  which  was  already  too  few,  of  pharmacists  who 
made  their  own  tinctures.  A  short  discussion  followed,  and 
it  was  agreed  to  postpone  the  matter  to  another  occasion.  The 
next  general  meeting  was  fixed  for  November  24,  when  Dr. 
Walter  R.  Hadwen,  J. P.,  will  give  an  address  on  "  Anti- 
"Vaccination." 

Western  Pharmacists'    Association    of  London,- 

The  new  session  was  opened  with  a  concert  and  whist-drive 
at  Frascati's  on  Wednesday  evening,  October  5.  In  spite  of 
the  fact  that  official  pharmacy  found  counter-attraction  in  a 
"'Pharmacy  Club  Dinner"  on  the  same  evening,  over  one 
hundred  members  and  their  lady  friends  were  present.  The 
new  President  (Mr.  H.  Raithby  Procter)  was  in  the  chair, 
and  shortly  after  eight  an  excellent  miniature  concert  was 
oegun,  at  which  the  President's  daughter  was  one  of  the  best 
appreciated  features  The  musical  items  were  mainly  con- 
tributed by 'members  of  the  Association,  among  whom  Mr. 
Jack  Royle  (of  Ingram  &  Royle)  came  in  for  a  large  share  of 
enthusiasm  for  his  song.  Miss  Daisy  Pocock  was  an  accept- 
able accompanist.  Among  those  present  were  Mrs.  Raithby 
Procter,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Paget  Matthews,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
John  D.  Marshall,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  T.  Barrett,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  R.  L.  Whigham,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Brooks, 


Mrs.  Edmund  White,  Mr.  W.  J.  U.  Woolcock,  Mr. 
T.  W.  Williams  (Wright,  Layman  &  Umney,  Ltd.),  Mr. 
Presant  (Sangers'),  Mr.  F.  W.  Crossley-Holland  (Menley 
&  James,  Ltd.),  Mr.  Royle,  senr.  (Ingram  &  Royle,  Ltd.), 
Mr.  Brittain,  Mr.  Browne,  Mr.  Shaw,  Mr.  N.  H. 
Schollar,  and  Mr.  C.  T.  Allen  (Hon.  Secretary).  After  music 
came  refreshments,  and  whist  was  begun  about  ten  o'clock. 
Ten  games  were  played  and  the  following  were  the  prize- 
winners: Ladies,  (1)  Mrs.  Paget  Matthews,  (2)  Mrs.  J.  T. 
Barrett,  (consolation)  Miss  Baker;  gentlemen,  (1)  Mr.  George 
A.  How,  (2)  Mr.  Alban  Atkin,  (consolation)  Mr.  A.  R. 
Melhuish.  The  prizes  were  distributed  by  Mrs.  Raithby 
Procter,  and  in  thanking  the  President  for  his  able  conduct 
of  the  proceedings,  Mr.  Paget  Matthews  (President  of  the 
Croydon  Chemists'  Association)  voiced  the  feelings  of  all 
present.  More  than  a  meed  of  praise  is  due  to  the  Hon. 
Secretary  for  genial  and  unobtrusive  aid  towards  the  success 
of  the  evening. 

Bradford  Chemists'  Association. 

A  Large  attendance  of  members  of  the  Association 
gathered  at  the  Royal  Hotel,  Darley  Street,  Bradford,  on 
October  4,  for  the  monthly  business  meeting,  when  Mr. 
Marmaduke  Firth  (President)  occupied  the  chair.  In  a 
communication  from  Alderman  Dunn,  pharmacist,  thanks 
were  expressed  for  the  Association's  congratulations  upon 
his  election  to  the  magisterial  bench.  After  Divisional 
Secretaries  had  been  appointed,  the  Secretary  (Mr.  R. 
Silson)  referred  to  an  anonymous  letter  which  he  had  re- 
ceived. He  first  explained  that  a  customer,  after  pur- 
chasing some  eau  de  Cologne  and  essence  of  vanilla  at  his 
pharmacy  about  a  week  ago,  had  observed  that  there  was 
no  law  existent  which  allowed  him  to  sell  those  articles, 
and  that  Mr.  Silson  had  therefore  broken  the  law  in  selling 
them  without  a  spirit-licence.  Upon  being  told  that  re- 
gistered chemists  were  allowed  by  the  Inland  Revenue 
Authority  to  sell  the  commodities,  the  man  stated  that  the 
permission  of  the  Inland  Revenue  Authority  did  not  con- 
stitute legal  permission,  and  that  there  had  never  been  a 
law  passed  which  gave  chemists  the  right  to  sell  spirituous 
medicines.  The  Secretary  had  gathered  that  his  customer 
was  connected  with  some  wholesale  grocers'  society.  The 
customer,  who  also  referred  to  the  correspondence  between 
the  Hull  Pharmacists'  Association  and  the  Inland  Revenue 
Authorities,  said  he  bought  some  spirituous  preparations, 
including  brilliantine,  from  Messrs.  Mackay  &  Son,  Brad- 
ford. In  conclusion,  the  customer  said  he  was  not  going 
to  take  any  action  in  regard  to  the  present  case,  but  if 
the  thing  came  to  a  head  pharmacists  would  find  that 
various  organisations  would  be  against  them.  The  letter 
which  had  since  been  received  bore  a  Leeds  post-mark,  but 
no  address  or  signature.    It  read  as  follows  : 

September  27,  1910. 
Dear  Sir, — Since  calling  upon  you  last  week  I  have  had 
a  copy  of  a  Bradford  newspaper  sent  to  me  in  which  there 
is  a  paragraph  about  grocers  having  been  warned  respect- 
ing the  sale  of  sweet  nitre  and  other  medicines  containing 
spirit. 

A  similar  paragraph  appears  in  the  "  Grocers'  Review," 
and  in  other  periodicals. 

Under  these  circumstances  of  greater  publicity  I  must 
withdraw  the  statement  I  made  when  leaving  you,  namely, 
that  the  eau  de  Cologne  and  essence  of  vanilla  I  purchased 
from  you  would  not  be  sent  to  the  Customs  House,  and  now 
intimate  that  if  I  hear  of  another  case  of  a  shopkeeper 
being  warned  by  a  Customs  officer  I  shall  send  the  articles 
mentioned  above,  and  also  the  two  articles  I  purchased  from 
Messrs.  Mackay  &  Son,  to  the  Customs  House,  London,  and 
request  the  Secretary  to  cause  you  to  be  warned  in  the  same 
way.  Samples  will  also  be  purchased  from  the  President 
of  your  Association  and  others. 

Similar  action  will  be  taken  in  other  towns  where  a 
chemists'  association  puts  pressure  upon  the  authorities. 

After  a  member  had  described  the  letter  as  "  piffle,"  the 
President  asked  for  the  opinion  of  the  meeting,  and  after 
some  discussion  it  was  decided  to  send  the  letter  to  the 
trade  Press,  and  also  to  the  Inland  Revenue  authorities. 

Messrs.  Elbourne  and  Holroyd  having  been  elected 
members,  the  President  called  attention  to  the  Shops 
(No.  2)  Bill,  but  it  was  finally  resolved  that  the  Association 
should  not  do  anything  in  regard  to  the  matter  until  after 
the  second  reading  of  the  Bill,  since  the  local  Chamber  of 
Trade  had  sent  up  its  recommendations  and  was  prepared 
to  take  action  at  any  time. 


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Medical  Exhibition. 

THE  London  Medical  Exhibition,  organised  by  "The 
British  and  Colonial  Druggist,"  is  being  held  this 
■week  at  the  Royal  Horticultural  Hall,  Westminster,  S.W. 
Despite  the  fact  that  this  is  the  second  medical  exhibition 
held  in  London  this  year,  and  that  several  well-known 
firms  have  ceased  showing,  the  exhibits  are  more  numerous 
than  last  year.  The  stands  are  laid  out  to  attract  and 
interest  the  medical  visitor,  but,  although  the  exhibits  are 
well  arranged,  there  is,  on  the  whole,  a  paucity  of  new 
ideas.  Pharmaceutical  displays  bulk  largely,  and  these 
and  others  of  interest  to  our  readers  are  described  below. 
Pharmaceutical  Products. 
Aerators,  Ltd.,  are  exhibiting  the  "  Prana "  carbon- 
dioxide  snow  apparatus  (for  the  rapid  production  of  COs 
caustics  for  nsevi,  lupus,  etc.,  treatment)  and  the 
"  Prana"  apparatus  for  producing  carbonic-acid  baths. 

The  American  Animal  Therapy  Co.,  Ltd.,  have  a  very 
pretty  flower-strewn  exhibit,  which  draws  visitors  natur- 
ally to  inquire  into  the  neatly  packed  capsules  of  Lymphoid 
Compound  (Lowenthal).  After  this  unique  method  of 
administering  animal  products  orally  is  described,  atten- 
tion is  drawn  to  the  new  lymph-serum  (Lowenthal)  in 
ampoules  and  sterilised  jars. 

John  Bell  &  Croyden,  Ltd.,  show  a  model  of  their 
sterilising  chambers,  which  form  a  centre  of  attraction. 
The  drums  containing  the  sterilised  dressings  and  a  varied 
display  of  catheters  also  attract  attention. 

The  Hygtenic  Co.  (1910),  Ltd.,  are  demonstrating  the 
advantages  of  their  portable  porcelain-topped  syphon  at 
the  same  stand,  which  also  carries  a  neat  display  of  Droit- 
wich  brine-crystals  and  Nauheim  bath-salts. 

Burroughs  Wellcome  &  Co.  accord  the  place  of  honour 
in  their  beautifully  equipped  exhibit  to  "Tabloid" 
bismuth  gauze,  this  new  dressing  having  been  found  to 
be  particularly  suited  for  uterine  operations.  Tabloid 
and  ampoule  medication  is  well  represented,  as  well  as 
"  Vaporole "  products.  Testing  outfits  and  first-aid 
outfits,  medicine  chests  and  cases  are  examples  of  scien- 
tific space-saving.  A  well-arranged  display  of  fine 
chemicals  is  also  included  in  the  exhibit. 

Corbyn,  Stacey  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  have  a  nice  exhibit  of 
galenicals  and  pharmaceutical  specialities. 
_  Arthur  H.  Cox  &  Co.  make  formalin  tablets  a  leading 
line,  the  most  recent  of  which  is  "Formarose"  tablets  (rose 
flavour),  a  line  protected  at  Is.  9d.  each  (cost,  lis.  6d.  per 
dozen)  which  bid  fair  to  become  as  popular  as  the  better- 
known  "  Cinnaform  "  tablets  (cinnamon  flavour).  Masso- 
lettes  (the  health  milk  bon-bon),  Virogen  (soluble  casein 
with  glycerophosphates),  and  a  host  of  varied-hued  pills 
and  tablets  are  also  displayed. 

The  Denver  Chemical  Manufacturing  Co.  are  show- 
ing Antiphlogistine,  which  they  laconically  recommend  as 
follows  :  "  Hygroscopic,  antiseptic.  Apply  hot  and 
thick." 

Duncan,  Flockhart  &  Co.  make  their  bow  to  the  medical 
profession  as  producers  of  vaccines,  which  are  made  from 
primary  virulent  cultures  by  Dr.  Ian  Struthers  Stewart. 
Pure  anaesthetics  are  well  represented,  in  common  with  a 
well-arranged  pharmaceutical  display.  Modern  therapy  is 
the  keynote  of  the  exhibit,  which  includes  physiologically 
standardised  tinctures  and  pressor  principles  (pituitary 
body  and  suprarenal  gland).  Milled  ointments,  malt- 
extract  combinations,  and  a  new  ethereal  soap  containing 
3  per  cent,  of  iodine  are  also  on  view. 

Fairchild  Bros.  &  Foster  have  a  representative  ex- 
hibit of  their  digestive  products.  Panopepton,  in  tall 
stoppered  show-jars,  forces  itself  upon  one's  attention, 
while  numerous  cartons  containing  peptogenic  milk- 
powder  and  pepsencia  are  also  conspicuous  in  a  display 
containing  numerous  other  digestive  aids.  The  lecithin 
and  holadin  treatment  for  diabetes  is  in  the  forefront  of 
the  propaganda  here. 

Hedley  &  Co.  (Leytonstone).  Ltd..  are  showing  all 
kinds  of  anaesthetics  for  the  first  time.  This  new  company 
have  been  known  for  years  (under  the  old  firm-name)  as 
makers  of  ethyl  chloride,  and  they  claim  to  be  the  only 
makers  of  methyl  chloride  in  this  country.  They  now 
manufacture  chloroform,  ethers,   etc.,   as  well,  besides 


packing  various  specialities  such  as  menthol  spray,  acetone 
spray  (for  nasal  catarrh),  dusting-powder,  and  tooth- 
pow  der. 

The  Hoffmann-La  Roche  Chemical-works,  Ltd., 
make  silver  and  black  the  predominant  tone  in  their 
artistic  exhibit,  which  includes  an  educational  display  of 
fine  alkaloids  and  chemicals.  Particularly  noteworthy 
are  the  huge  crystals  of  guaiacol,  while  the  display  of 
strychnine,  caffeine,  cocaine,  and  their  salts  is  also  re- 
markable. Airol,  digalen,  thiocol,  and  secacornin  are  the 
chief  therapeutical  agents  whose  properties  are  being 
expounded. 

H.  &  T.  Kirby  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  are  giving  great  promi- 
nence to  the  "  Kirby  "  feeding-cup,  which  only  allows  slow 
administration  of  a  predetermined  amount  of  food. 
Purgen  (mild  aperient),  glycecols,  colalin  (bile  principle), 
compressed  tablets,  pills,  and  glycerin  suppositories  are 
other  special  features. 

Lundy,  Wilson  &  Co.  have  a  remedy  for  asthma,  hay- 
fever,  croup,  etc.,  on  view  which  they  name  "Lalkala." 
It  is  put  up  in  paper  form  (for  burning)  and  in  cigarettes. 
These  are  packed  in  boxes,  which  retail  at  2s.  per  box. 
As  a  proof  that  the  smoking  is  not  disagreeable,  "  Lal- 
kala "  cigarettes  are  said  to  be  distinctly  favoured  by 
lady  patients. 

Menley  &  James,  Ltd.,  have  an  exhibit  in  which 
Glidine  and  its  combinations  are  in  good  evidence.  Mr. 
F.  Crossley-Holland,  F.C.S.,  who  is  in  charge,  is  als» 
expatiating  upon  the  advantages  of  "Iodex,"  a  stainless 
non-irritating  ointment  containing  free  iodine. 

Oppenheimer,  Son  &  Co.'s  exhibit  is  almost  purely 
pharmaceutical,  pulverettes,  palatinoids,  liquors,  and  oint- 
ments contributing  to  the  effective  display.  Roboleine 
and  automatic  oxygen-generators,  including  the  "  Oxin- 
halator,"  are  being  given  special  attention. 

Parke,  Davis  &  Co.  occupy  a  double  stand  with  at 
representative  display  of  their  multifarious  products. 
Vaccine  therapy  and  tuberculin  outfits  (for  the  vorr 
Pirquet,  Moro,  and  Calmette  reactions)  are  to  the  front, 
while  among  the  older  remedial  agents  are  cod-liver  oil 
and  petroleum  emulsions  and  hematic  hypophosphites. 
Hydrogen  peroxide,  "  Glaseptic  "  nebulisers,  adrenalin 
and  its  combinations,  hypodermic  tablets  and  syringes, 
are  other  special  features.  Lactone  tablets  and  euthymol 
preparations  illustrate  the  more  popular  side  of  this  highly 
Technical  exhibit 

Parke's  Drug-stores,  Ltd.,  supply  the  unusual  spec- 
tacle of  a  retailer  exhibiting  to  the  medical  profession.  The 
use  of  "Erik  Hansen"  brand  of  cod-liver  oil  as  an  easily 
assimilable  food  is  the  object  of  this  bright  display,  which 
also  includes  malt-extract  combinations  and  emulsion. 

The  Regulin  Syndicate,  Ltd.,  are  putting  forward 
"  Regulin  "  (cascara  sagrada  combined  with  agar-agar)  as 
an  ideal  remedy  for  constipation. 

The  Saccharin  Corporation,  Ltd.,  dilate  upon  the 
advantages  of  their  soluble  local  anaesthetic  novocain, 
which  causes  less  irritation  and  possesses  less  toxic  powers 
than  cocaine  on  injection,  while  it  yields  stable  solutions 
which  are  compatible  with  suprarenin.  The  uses  of  per- 
genol,  which  yields  with  water  a  neutral  solution  contain- 
ing hydrogen  peroxide  for  sterilising  instruments  and  in 
general  surgery,  are  also  being  explained. 

Savory  &  Moore,  Ltd.,  are  food-specialists  in  good 
repute  with  the  laity  and  the  medical  profession.  So 
most  visitors  have  a  look  at  their  exhibit  to  see  what 
"the  latest"  is.  According  to  the  lady-in-charge,  the 
most  interest  at  the  moment  is  in  the  peptonised-milk 
combinations — with  coffee,  cocoa,  chocolate,  etc.  These 
are  in  predigested  forms  to  make  them  acceptable  to  all 
patients.  The  well-known  Infants'  Food,  the  "  Valve- 
less  Feeder,"  "  Fructole,"  "Savore,"  "  Aperione "  (a 
synthetic  purgative),  and  Savory  Magnesia  Compound  are 
also  on  view. 

Stern  &  Co.  have  a  full  range  of  their  Pumiline  pine- 
oil  preparations,  and  their  latest  inhalation  for  influenza, 
catarrh,  etc. — Stern's  Creosote  Compound. 

B.  Francis  Strtnger  has  a  small  but  "  taking  "  exhibit, 
at  which  he  initiates  medical  men  and  others  into  the 
mysteries  of  "  Nazene "  and  the  nasal  bath.  This  new 
remedy  is  recommended  on  the  principle  that  it  is  as  im- 
portant to  keep  our  breathing  apparatus  clean  and  disin- 
fected as  to  have  our  daily  bath.    "  Nazene  "  is  to  be  sold 


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through  chemists,  and  the  retail  price  is  2s.  6c?.  At  the 
same  stall  is  to  be  seen  Bellis's  "  Turtle  Cup  "—a  nutrient 
in  tablet  form,  and  also  sold  in  Is.  bottles. 

James  Woolley,  Sons  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  typify  elegant 
pharmacy  in  their  well-arranged  exhibit.  Jecoyol  (egg 
emulsion  of  cod-liver  oil  with  glycerophosphates)  is  a  pro- 
minent feature,  followed  by  Woolley's  sanitary  rose- 
powder.  "Phenoda"  tooth-paste  and  Woolley's  milk- 
food  for  infants  are  other  lines  of  increasing  popularity. 
The  more  medicinal  novelties  include  lotio  resorcin.  cq. 
and  lotio  refrigerans  (Woolley),  which  are  replacing  the 
more  messy  ointments  ;  and  Ergoval,  a  liquid  ergot  extract 
following  the  lines  indicated  by  Mr.  J.  H.  Franklin  at  the 
recent  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  (O.  <L-  D., 
July  30,  p.  207).  "  Boval  "  trusses  and  the  ''Woolley" 
antiseptic  spray  are  other  items  in  this  interesting  display. 

Wright,  Layman  &  Umney,  Ltd.,  fill  one  side  of  their 
stand  with  a  goodly  display  of  Wright's  coal-tar  speciali- 
ties, among  which  coal-tar  soap  and  liquor  carbonis  deter- 
gens  predominate.  The  other  side  is  given  over  to  phar- 
maceutical products,  including  miscible  extracts,  pills, 
capsules,  tablets,  and  essential  oils.  Rosettol,  the  new 
synthetic  rose  oil,  diffuses  a  sweet  aroma  around  the 
stand. 

Disinfectants. 
"  The  Lancet  "  analysis  of  "  Cofectant  "  is  a  prominent 
feature  of  the  artistic  exhibit  made  by  Edward  Cook  & 
Co.,  Ltd.  The  medical  visitors  are  distinctly  interested 
in  the  various  "  Cofectant "  forms  and  combinations. 
Besides  the  ordinary  disinfectant  fluid,  "Cofectant"  is 
shown  for  surgical  use,  and  in  a  special  quality  which  is 
miscible  with  sea-water  and  saline  solutions.  There  are 
also  "  Cofectant  "  soaps,  bath-tablets,  ointments,  mem- 
broids,  and  lozenges.  Mr.  Thos.  Alex.  Cook  is  present  a 
good  deal  of  the  time,  and  he  does  not  overlook  the  claims 
of  "  Asepso,"  "Solace,"  and  "  Hygeso  "  for  medical  con- 
sideration. An  attractive,  yet  businesslike,  show.  The 
non-toxicity  of  Cyllin  is  being  impressed  upon  the  medicos 
who  haunt  the  corner  show  of  Jeyes'  Sanitary  Compounds 
Co.,  Ltd.  It  is  held  to  be  a  disinfectant  combining 
"  the  maximum  of  efficiency  as  a  bactericide  with  the  mini- 
mum of  causticity  and  toxicity  to  the  higher  forms  of 
life."  It  is  presented  in  capsule,  syrup,  pastille,  and  in- 
halant form  for  internal,  and  in  a  great  variety  of  forms 
for  external,  use.  Newton,  Chambers  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  are 
illustrating  the  behaviour  of  their  disinfectant  Izal  on 
dilution  with  water  and  fluids  containing  organic  matter 
as  compared  with  other  disinfectants.  The  persistence  of 
the  Izal  emulsion  and  its  concomitant  germicidal  activity 
under  all  conditions  are  the  points  upon  which  stress  is 
laid.  Maxsol,  the  disinfectant  with  a  maximum  of  solu- 
bility, surrounded  by  its  satellites — maxsoline  (maxsol 
vaseline),  mouth-wash,  pate  dentifrice,  and  toilet-soap — 
are  combined  to  form  a  pleasing  display  at  the  stand  of 
Maxsol,  Ltd.  Chas.  Zimmermann  &  Co.  devote  their 
space  to  displaying  Lysol,  Lysol  soap,  and  Calogen  tireless 
fumigators.  The  latter  takes  the  form  of  a  cylinder  of 
potassium  permanganate,  chromic  acid,  and  a  sulphide, 
which,  on  being  placed  in  a  pail  with  formaldehyde  solu- 
tion, generates  a  large  quantity  of  moist  formaldehyde 
vapour. 

Foods  and  Drinks. 

Aplin  &  Barrett  and  the  Western  Counties 
Creameries,  Ltd.,  are  interesting  the  medical  profession 
in  St.  Ivel  cheese  (lactic  and  lactic  curd)  and  Ivelcon  (the 
St.  Ivel  consomme)  at  their  dainty  stall.  The  Bayer 
Co.,  Ltd.,  are  giving  especial  attention  to  the  new  pack- 
ings of  Somatose  and  Somatose  Compound — Guycose, 
Liquid  Somatose,  and  Liquid  Iron  Somatose.  Bovril, 
Ltd.,  dispense  tasty  samples  of  their  stimulating  products  ; 
while  Virol,  Ltd.,  also  show  their  flesh-forming  and 
fattening  food,  the  ingredients  of  which  are  indicated. 
The  genesis  of  an  absolutely  pure  cocoa  is  typified  at  the 
neat  stand  occupied  by  Cadbury  Bros.,  Ltd.,  where  a 
large  jar  of  shelled  cocoa-beans  is  accompanied  by  smaller 
jars  of  Cadbury 's  cocoa-essence  and  the  by-product  cocoa- 
butter.  Delicious  dairy-milk  chocolate  and  Bournville 
chocolate  are  other  delectable  confections  which  are  up- 
holding the  firm's  reputation.  Casein,  Ltd.,  show  their 
specialities — Trumilk    (full-cream    milk-powder),  Phos- 


phova  (eggs,  milk,  malt  and  sodium  glycerophosphate), 
and  Vi-Casein  (a  purin-free  nitrogenous  food).  The  solu- 
bility and  palatability  of  their  milk-powder  are  demon- 
strated by  ocular  and  gustatory  means.  Frame  Food 
Co.,  Ltd.,  are  particularly  strong  on  "Frame  Food 
Essence,"  their  new  powder  for  enriching  ordinary  foods 
by  supplying  soluble  albuminoids  and  organic  mineral  com- 
pounds where  required.  Glaxo  are  demonstrating  the 
non-clotting  character  of  their  milk-food,  which  consists 
of  dessicated  milk  to  which  cream  and  lactose  have  been 
added.  The  proteids  are  changed  during  the  course  of 
preparation,  so  that  when  remade  with  boiling  water  no 
dense  clot  is  produced.  Horlick's  Malted  Milk  Co.,  in 
addition  to  dispensing  and  demonstrating  the  preparation 
of  liquid  samples  of  their  well-known  food,  are  exhibiting 
a  new  feeder  of  the  hygienic  type  with  transparent  teat. 
The  feature  of  the  latter  is  the  replacement  of  the  usual 
rubber  valve  by  a  grooved-glass  stopper.  A  yellow  colour- 
scheme  is  the  appropriate  setting  for  the  exhibits  of  Keen's 
and  Colman's  mustards  by  Keen,  Robinson  &  Co.,  Ltd. 
The  Colman  sinapic  specialities  for  medical  use  are 
specially  emphasised,  as  well,  as  Robinson's  Groats  for 
infants  and  invalids.  The  Liebig's  Extract  of  Meat 
Co.,  Ltd.,  are  regaling  visitors  with  refreshing  samples  of 
their  liquid  and  solid  nutriments,  Nursing  Oxo  as  a  pre- 
digested  form  of  fluid  beef  extract  without  flavouring 
being  kept  well  to  the  front.  Diabetic  foods,  containing 
changed  starch  easily  assimilable  by  diabetic  patients,  and 
sugarless  preserves  are  the  principal  exhibits  of  the 
Manhu  Food  Co.,  Ltd.  Richard  Maurice  is  exhibiting 
the  Brusson  Jeune  bread  for  diabetics  in  various  forms. 
Besides  there  are  nicely  packed  samples  of  gluten-treated 
macaroni,  vermicelli,  semolina,  and  tapioca.  The  Miol 
Manufacturing  Co.,  Ltd.,  exhibit  their  special  food- 
product.  Milk  exhibits  were  also  a  feature.  The  London 
Pure  Milk  Association's  representative  told  us  that 
lactobacilline  milk  (the  only  one  supplied  by  the  authority 
of  Professor  Metchnikoff)  is  being  taken  lip  by  many 
chemists,  who  find  it  an  additional  profitable  line. 

Beaufoy  &  Co.  have  a  handsome  exhibit  of  their  tonic 
meat-and-malt  wine.  Bendle,  Ltd.,  have  little  difficulty 
in  persuading  investigators  that  Nutrovin — their  patented 
meat  port — is  a  nutrient  stimulant  of  considerable  medi- 
cinal value.  Coleman  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  are  enhancing  the 
popularity  which  Wincarnis  already  enjoys  among  the 
medical  profession.  The  "G.B."  diabetes  whisky  (free 
from  sugar  and  added  flavouring)  is  another  kind  of 
stimulant  for  diabetes  which  can  be  sampled  at  George 
Back  &  Co.'s  stall.  Hall's  Wine  and  Keystone 
Burgundy  are  staple  lines  exhibited  by  Stephen  Smith 
&  Co.,  Ltd.,  but  Carvino  (meat-and-malt  wine)  occupies 
the  pride  of  place  in  a  handsome  display.  Schweppes, 
Ltd.,  devote  their  space  almost  entirely  to  fruit-cordials 
and  non-alcoholic  wine.  The  British  La  Toja  Co.  ex- 
hibit La  Toja  mud,  salts,  water,  and  soap.  A  small 
exhibit  of  Friedrichshall  water  is  made  by  C.  Oppel  & 
Co.  The  virtues  of  St.  Raphael  natural  tonic  wine  are 
descanted  upon  by  Findlater,  Mackie,  Todd  &  Co., 
Ltd.,  w:ho  have  also  an  exhibit  of  natural  mineral  waters, 
among  which  Carabana  (aperient)  and  Birresborn  (spark- 
ling table-water)  are  most  prominent.  The  double  stand 
occupied  by  Ingram  &  Royle,  Ltd.,  contains  a  compre- 
hensive display  of  natural  mineral  waters,  the  principal 
being  Carlsbad  (water  and  salt),  Contrexeville.  Hunyadi- 
Janos,  and  Vichy.  The  attention  of  medical  visitors  is 
being  drawn  to  the  necessity  of  noting  the  name  of  spring 
when  ordering  Vichy  waters  in  order  to  ensure  that  they 
are  derived  from  the  State  springs.  Royal  Mineral 
Springs  (Niederselters  and  Fachingen)  have  a  small  dis- 
play of  their  natural  mineral  waters.  Salutaris  Water 
Co.  are  showing  their  table-water,  the  "A.D."  brand  of 
distilled  water,  and  various  beverages  prepared  with 
distilled  water.  John  Saxon  &  Co.  exhibit  Magi  water,  a 
natural  table-water  with  radio-active  properties  from  the 
Caledonia  springs,  Ontario.  Vittel  (Grande  Source) 
water  has  the  distinction  of  being  shown  at  three  exhibits, 
including  a  stand  to  itself,  where  the  Societe  Generalf. 
des  Eaux  Minerales  des  Vittel  (Vosges)  are  advocating 
its  use  as  a  table-water  and  in  gout  and  kidney  affections. 
A.  S.  Wehner  &  Co.  are  exhibiting  their  anti-obesity 
remedy — Dalloff  Tea. 


Index  Folio  547 


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46 


THE  CHEMIST  AND  DEUGGIST 


October  8,  1910 


Miscellaneous. 
James  Barker  claims  to  be  the  largest  maker  of  vibra- 
tory massage-machines  in  the  world.  The  Barker 
machine  is  being  demonstrated  to  doctor  and  nurse,  and 
it  is  the  kind  of  machine  which  chemists  could  sell. 
Oxygen  and  oxygen  apparatus  comprise  the  exhibit  of 
the  British  Oxygen  Co.,  Ltd.  Clarke's  Syphon  Stove 
Co. ,  Ltd.  ,  have  a  nice  assortment  of  their  warming-appara- 
tus. A  "Syphon  "  stove  in  section  demonstrates  the  devious 
route  of  the  gases  before  they  emanate  to  give  a  pure 
supply  of  warm  air  from  which  combustion  products  have 
been  removed  by  condensation.  E.  &  R.  Garrotjld  show 
their  zymotic  face-protector  and  operating-clothes.  J.  J. 
Hicks  specialises  in  clinical  thermometers  and  sphyg- 
mometers. Simplified-scale  thermometers  (such  as  the 
"Lady  Aberdeen"  maternal  clinical  thermometer  and 
the  Dr.  Usher-Somers  clinical)  are  mainly  in  evidence. 
There  is  also  a  useful  exhibit  of  white  opal  measuring- 
glasses,  urinometers,  lactometers,  etc. 


Business  Changes. 

Mr.  P.  C.  Cartledge,  pharmaceutical  chemist,  has  pur- 
chased the  business  lately  carried  on  by  Mr.  A.  Jarvis, 
chemist  and  druggist,  at  The  Pharmacy,  Parkstone, 
Dorset. 

Messrs.  H.  O.  Huskisson  &  Co.,  manufacturing 
•chemists,  have  left  their  offices  and  works  at  Swinton 
Street,  Gray's  Inn  Road,  London,  W.C.,  for  more  com- 
modious premises  at  Moon  Street,  Theberton  Street,  Isling- 
ton, N.  Street  improvements  are  the  reason  for  the  firm 
leaving  their  former  premises,  which  they  have  occupied 
since  1800. 

OCTOBER  MINOR  EXAMINATIONS. 

Examination  in  Edinburgh. 

We  have  received  from  the  Registrar  of  the  Pharma- 
ceutical Society  of  Great  Britain  the  following  list  of 
persons  who  at  the  recent  Minor  examination  held  in 
Edinburgh  were  granted  certificates  of  registration  as 
-chemists  and  druggists  : 


Baillic,  J.  D.  M.,  Edinburgh. 
Bastiek,  Sydney,  Liverpool. 
Black,  Walter  C,  Edinburgh. 
Bryson,  T.  B.,  Dunfermline. 
Caddell,  Alexander  F.,  Leith. 
Cairns,  George,  Hawick. 
Cornish,  Hubert  H.,  Bridgwater. 
Criehton,  Thomas,  Edinburgh. 
Dagg,  Arthur,  Tynemouth. 
Dodds,  George  Coltherd,  Leith. 
Donaldson,  Harry,  Dunfermline. 
Drummond,  Robert  G.,  Falkirk. 
Dunlop.  Margaret,  Glasgow. 
Ewart,  William,  Edinburgh. 
Tester,  Ernest  C.,  Keswick. 
Hodgkinson,  Harold,  Barrow-in- 
Furness. 
Laidlaw,  Peter,  Lasswade. 

Examination  in  London. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  persons  who  were  granted  Minor 
Certificates  by  the  Board  of  Examiners  for  England  and 
Wales  : 

How- 


Long,  J.,  Neweastle-on-Tyne. 
Macbeth,  Angus  H.,  Glasgow. 
McConnachie,  .T.  B.,  Hawick. 
McGonigal,  George  C,  Dundee. 
MeNieol,  Annie,  Glasgow. 
Nicoll,  Joseph  R.,  Edinburgh. 
Riddell,  George,  Mintlaw. 
Ridley,  James  F.,  Rothbury. 
B-obbie,  Charlotte  Toung,  Edin- 
burgh. 

Scott,  A.  E.,  Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
Stuart,  George  Paul,  Cullen. 
Teunon,  William,  Turriff. 
Thompson,  Ernest,  Newcastle-on- 
Tyne. 

Waiker,  Percy,  Southport. 
Wilson,  John  R.,  Halifax. 


Anderson,  George  C.  Reading 
Benjamin,  Leopold,  Leeds. 
Bennett,  E.  H.  G.,  Holloway 
Bennison,  Wm.,  Stafford. 
Brown,  Geo.  W.,  Altrincham 
Cocking,  Robert,  Preston. 
C'orringham,  F.  E.,  Portslade 
Davies,  Latimer  G.,  Penarth. 
Davis,  Arthur  H.,  Bournville. 
Eoob,  Arthur  H.,  Peterborough. 
Edmonds,  Wm.  John,  Watford. 
Ellis,  Wm.  Edwin  John.  Ilford. 
Emery,  Geo.  Gordon,  Fulhain. 
Friek'er,  Lionel,  Bath. 
Grantham,  Reginald,  York. 
Green,  Herbert  John,  Frome. 
Hayne,  Lynham  R.,  Camelford. 
Hearnshaw,  R.  M.,  Spalding. 
Innes,  Wm.  R.,  Stalybridge. 
James,  Jas.  Stanley,  Clapham. 
Jones,  R.  G..  Holyhead. 
Kaiserman,  Joseph,  Manchester. 
Lang-ton,  R.  H.,  Carnarvon. 
Marmion,  J.  P.,  Birkenhead. 
Marshall,  Austen,  Bloxwich. 


Metcalfe,   Daisy  E.  W., 
stead. 

Midgley,  Frank,  Bradford. 
Minter*  E.  F.,  Brightlingsea. 
Moore,  Percy  E.,  Ilkeston. 
Moss,  Osmond  Fredk.,  Burslem. 
Murison,  John  T.  G.,  Highgate. 
Naylor,  D.  W.,  Chesterfield. 
Owen,  Gwladys,  Llandudno. 
Parker,  C.  S.,  Melbourne. 
Purcell,  John  A.,  Audlem. 
Rees,  D.  M.,  Ystrad  Meurig. 
Rowe,  Robert,  Morecambe. 
Sadler,  Alfred  V.  C,  Oxford. 
Saunders,  Wm.  G.,  Liverpool. 
Scott,  Arthur,  Queensbury. 
Stonnell,  Edward.  Luton. 
Swift,  Ed.  H.,  Wath-on  Dearne. 
Symms,  Frank,  Tarporley. 
Thomas,  T.  W.,  Aberdovey. 
Thurmott,  Fred.  W.,  Wisbech. 
Verity,  T.,  Pateley  Bridge. 
Wateri.  E..  Grange-over-Sands. 
Whitelev,  F.  W.,  Ripponden. 
Widgerv.  A.  E.,  St.  John's  Wood. 


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The  object  of  this  Department  is  to  supply  names  and  addresses  of 
Manufacturers  of,  or  Agents  for,  goods  pertaining  to  the  Chemical, 
Drug:  and  Allied  Trades.  The  "  Buyers'  Guide  "  in  each  issue  of 
"The  Chemist  and  Druggist"  affords  much  information,  but  in- 
quiries for  anything  not  referred  to  therein  may  be  addressed  to 
this  Department.  Replies  will  be  furnished  immediately,  or  inserted 
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f  card  or  telephone  who  are  the  makers  or  agents  of  the  articles 
[mentioned  in  the  following  inquiries  received  since  our  last 
issue  : 

48/101.    "  Nazaseptic  granules." 
54/31.    "Bimbo"  food:  makers. 
48/10.    "  Pharyngaseptic  granules." 
49/70.    Eureka  Chemical  Co.  :  address. 
49/73.    "  Rochite  "  insecticides:  supply. 
51/42-    "  Pepita  "  :  makers  or  suppliers. 
55/36.    Dr.  PaUaceps  nail-stone:  makers. 
54/60.    "  Aero  Spray  Atomizers  "  :  supply. 
49/16     "  Grip  "  cement :  makers  or  agents. 
52/5.    "  Aosta  Salts,"  proprietors  or  agents. 
51/41.    "  Eau  Bonnes":  makers  or  agents. 
51/4.    "  Martoni  bath-salts"  :  makers  or  agents. 
55/70.    "  Manola  Food  "  :  wholesale  supply  in  this  country. 
56/15.    Austen's  "Forest-Flower  Cologne":  British  im- 
porters. 

INFORMATION  SUPPLIED. 

During  the  past  week  we  have  answered  inquiries  regarding  the 
following  articles.  The  information  will  be  repeated  to  any  other 
inquirers  who  send  to  the  Department  a  stamped  and  addressed 
envelope  for  the  purpose. 

Alpa  tonic:  makers  (49/49). 

Anhydrous  ammonia  :  makers  (48/48). 

Autotherm  flask:  agents  (48/56). 

"  Avarin  "  :  makers  (52/74). 

Celluloid  crude:  Continental  makers  (39/14). 

Caffyn's  liquor  carnis:  proprietors  (45/42). 

Electros  (trade)  :  supply  (53/61). 

Formic  acid  tablets:  supply  (49/28). 

"  Frigiline  "  :  makers  (52/73). 

Glycerin  (Twitchell  process) :  supply  (54/6). 

"Humane"  cattle-killer:  maker  (48/11). 

"Iglodine"  :  proprietors  (49/14). 

Invalid's  food-mincer:  supply  (48/67). 

Iodolysin:  makers  (51/44).  ,  , 

Kerfoot  &  Co.'s  address  (New  Zealand  .inquiry)  (53/14).. 

"  Kleno"  :  makers  (45/32). 

Lactagol  (Pearson)  :  makers  and  agents  (53/48). 
Liquorice-juice:  direct  importers  (49/31). 
Maltzyme  and  cascara :  makers  (48/31). 
Machinery  for  packing  eeidlitz-powders  (47/3). 
JVlassolin  (for  painting  the  nostrils)  (47/21). 
"Mortem"  insect-powder  (49/73). 
"Mortine"  insecticides  (49/73). 

"  New  Century  "  tooth-paste  :  makers  (51/4).    _  ,  .. 

North  British  Rubber  Co.'s  address  (Australasian  inquiry) 
(53/14). 

Pine-bath  extract :  supply  (54/14). 
"Ratto":  supply  (48/10). 

Spirit  of  Stockholm  tar:  wholesale  supply  (47/67). 
Stationery:  wholesale  supply  (49/16). 
Talcum-powder  tins:  American  makers  (53/52). 
Thvolein  :  makers  and  agents  (48/31). 
"  Tusco"  dentifrice:  proprietors  (54/9). 
Tuscon^Salben  pilaster:  maker  (54/9). 
"  Vel-Vel  "  cream  :  makers  (50/32). 
Veno's  cough-cure :  makers  (54/15). 
Vei-non-Harcourt  chloroform-inhaler:  makers  (49/29). 
Weighing-machines  (large)  :  makers  (50/70). 


Mb.  Wm.  Alfred  Jones,  of  18a  Renshaw  Street,  Liverpool, 
has  just  returned  from  a  successful  business  tour  of  the  United 
States,  Canada,  and  the  West  Indies  on  behalf  of  the  Original 
Antiseptic  Pastille,  Ltd. 


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THE  CHEMIST  AND  DRUGGIST 


47 


Observations  and  Reflections. 

By  Xrayser  II. 


The  Manufacture  in  Bond 

of  alcoholic  preparations,  which  is 
looming  in  the  near  future  apparently,  will  be  a  step  of 
great  significance  to  the  trade  in  pharmaceuticals, 
essences,  perfumery,  and  perhaps  other  branches  of  in- 
dustry. The  only  insuperable  difficulty,  so  far  as  I  can 
judge,  to  the  establishment  of  separate  bonded  laboratories 
attached  to  manufactories  is  that  the  necessary  expense 
would  be  quite  prohibitive  to  the  small  man.  For  a  large 
wholesale  house  the  saving  of  interest  on  capital  and  on 
the  loss  of  alcohol  might  be  sufficient  to  recoup  the  manu- 
facturer for  the  extra  outlay  in  connection  with  super- 
vision which  the  Excise  would  require  to  enforce ;  but  any 
reform  that  is  to  be  generally  acceptable  must  not  operate 
unjustly  on  the  small  manufacturer,  and  hence  it  seems  to 
me  that  the  establishment  of 
A  Large  Bonded  Laboratory 

to  which  all  manufacturers 
could  have  access  on  fro  rata  terms  is  the  likeliest  solution 
of  the  difficulty.  No  doubt  there  are  disadvantages  in 
having  to  use  a  common  laboratory,  and  some  manufac- 
turers might  object  to  jeopardise  their  secret  processes  by 
making  use  of  it ;  but,  on  the  other  hand,  this  is  eminently 
a  case  where  the  public  good  must  be  the  deciding  factor, 
and  I  take  it  that  the  public  bonded  laboratory  is  the  best 
solution  of  the  problem.  In  view  of  the  considerable 
saving  all  round  if  duty-free  spirit  can  be  utilised,  and 
the  probability  of  our  being  able  to  compete  on  more  equal 
terms  in  the  world's  markets,  and  thus  to  retain  and  en- 
large our  export  trade  in  alcoholic  goods,  it  is  to  be  hoped 
that  the  Excise  authorities  will  lend  a  willing  ear  to  the 
proposal. 

"fhe^ Letter  T 

has  now  been  reached  in  the  "  Oxford  English 
Dictionary,"  and  the  first  portion  is  unusually  rich  in 
words  interesting  to  the  pharmacist.  Five  of  these  are 
either  Arabic  in  origin  or  have  come  to  us  through  that 
language.  Perhaps  the  most  important  is  tartar  (argol), 
which  with  its  numerous  family  "jostles"  (as  the  editor 
says)  "through  ten  columns  with  the  progeny  of  Tartary 
and  Tartarus."  Needless  to  say,  the  three  groups  are 
quite  distinct  in  origin.  Tartar,  though  we  got  it  through 
Arabic,  may  be  Egyptian ;  its  first  appearance  in  English 
is  in  Chaucer.  The  first  quotation  for  tartaric  acid  is 
dated  1810 ;  up  till  then  the  forms  tartarous  and  tartareous 
were  in  use.  Taraxacum,  originally  Persian,  however, 
also  comes  to  us  through  Arabic ;  it  means  literally  "  bitter 
herb,"  and  first  occurs  in  a  Latinised  form  as  tarasacon 
in  a  manuscript  of  1189.  Tarragon  (Arum  Dracunculus) 
is  Arabic,  but  reaches  us  through  Byzantine  Greek  and 
mediaeval  Latin  in  two  forms,  tragonia  and  tarchon,  the 
first  English  quotation  given  being  from  Elyot  (1538)  : 
"  Tragonia,  an  herbe  now  callid  Taragon,  late  sene  in  this 
realme,  whiche  hath  a  tast  like  gynger."  Tamarind  is 
Arabic  tamr-hindi  (date  of  India)  ;  and  talc  Arabic  talq, 
but  some  authorities  think  the  latter  originally  Persian. 
All  the  Foregoing 

are  of  extreme  interest  as  showing  our 
indebtedness  to  Arabia  for  much  of  our  knowledge. 
Tannic  acid  dates  from  1834,  when  it  was  suggested  by 
Pelouze  as  more  suitable  than  tannin ;  the  latter  first 
occurs  in  English,  as  tanin,  in  1802.  Tansy  has  an  in- 
teresting but  somewhat  obscure  history.  It  is  from 
tanesie  (Old  French),  which  is  said  to  be  from  the  Greek 


athanasia,  immortality,  a  name  which  refers  to  the  lasting 
nature  of  the  flowers.  Tanacetum  is  a  Latinised  form  of 
tanesie.  The  article  on  tacamahac  does  not  entirely 
settle  the  question  of  the  identity  of  this  resin  with 
caranna.  Several  species  of  Bursera,  Protium,  and  Calo- 
phyllum,  as  well  as  Populus  Balsamifera,  are  referred  to 
as  its  sources.  The  resin  from  the  balsam  poplar  is  dis- 
tinguished from  the  others.  Articles  of  much  interest  on 
tamarash,  tar,  and  tarantula  and  its  derivatives  can  only 
be  barely  mentioned ;  one  of  the  longest  in  the  section  is 
that  on  tea.  The  original  pronunciation  of  this  word 
(tay)  occurs  in  poetry  down  to  1762,  and  still  persists  in 
Ireland  and  in  some  of  our  dialects. 
Diet  and  Fatigue. 

It  is  now  well  understood  by  physiologists 
that  the  chief  cause  of  fatigue  is  auto-intoxication,  the 
result  of  the  absorption  of  toxins  or  poisons  produced  in 
the  decomposition  of  food  in  the  intestines.  The  bacteria 
which  are  the  cause  of  decomposition  feed  mainly  on  nitro- 
genous diet,  and  the  question  therefore  arises  whether  a 
reduction  in  the  consumption  of  proteins,  of  which  animal 
food  is  the  chief  example,  will  not  also  lessen  the  amount 
of  the  fatigue-producing  toxins.  This  question  is  still 
under  debate;  but  a  recent  report  of  the  U.S.  National 
Conservation  Commission  states  that  the  trend  of  physio- 
logical opinion  is  in  favour  of  reducing  the  consumption 
of  proteins.  Experiments  on  vegetarians  and  meat-eaters- 
in  the  research  laboratory  of  the  University  of  Brussels 
have  shown  that  the  former  are  superior  in  point  of  en- 
durance, and  that  they  recuperate  more  rapidly  from 
fatigue  than  the  latter.  Whether  this  is  due  to  the  lower 
protein  diet  is  now  being  investigated,  but  in  any  event  it 
indicates  that  other  causes  than  long  hours  may  be 
responsible  for  physical  deterioration. 


William  the  Porter. 

His  Philosophisings  as  recorded  by  Bruce  Logan. 


XIV. 

"  f\  H,  ye  mustn't  worry,  lad,"  said  William  to  me,  as  I 
\)      finished  relating  my  recent  verbal  tussle  with  a 
customer. 

"  Ye  mustn't  mind  at  all.  Some  men  be  for  all  t' world 
like  a  fully-charged  syphon.  They're  all  right  if  they  be 
left  alone,  but  it  takes  terr'bly  little  pressure  to  6end  'em 
off  fizzing  and  spluttering  all  over  t'  place." 

"Ay,  but  ye  mustn't  take  it  seriously,  'cause  all  t'  fizz 
goes  out  of  'em  very  quickly,  and  they're  quite  as  flat  as 
can  be." 

"  Ay,  an'  they're  not  alius  t'  worst  kind  of  men  either  ; 
they're  a  bit  fully  charged  with  unworked  force,  an'  that's 
about  all." 

"  Now,  there  be  t'  master  himself — he  goes  off  worse 
than  any  syphon ;  but  it  just  be  sheer  force  in  t'  man  as 
can't  get  an  outlet  any  other  way." 

"Ay,  and  ye'U  never  find  a  weakling  or  a  really  sneaky 
sort  o'  chap  going  off  like  that.  But  there  be  a  danger  in 
it,  lad,  'cause  a  man  can  explode  as  a  syphon  can ;  an' 
when  t'  natural  forces  in  a  man  explode  there  usually  be 
serious  trouble." 

"Ay,  an'  that  shows  t'  wisdom  of  alius  keeping  full 
control  of  yerself.  Ye  see  it  all  through  t'  workings  of 
Nature.  Power  must  be  kept  under  hand ;  out  o'  control 
it's  terr'bly  apt  to  be  dangerous,  and  t'  stronger  it  is  t' 
more  dangerous  it  becomes." 

"  Nay,  nay,  I  didn't  start  this  bit  of  a  talk  at  all.  But 
now  that  we  have  got  on  t'  subject  I  might  as  well  tell 
ye  that  ye  sometimes  fizz  a  bit  yerself.  Ay,  and  if  ye  just 
bear.it  in  mind  next  time  ye  feel  like  letting  go  at  t' 
errand-lad — well,  I  think  t'  lad  '11  do  his  work  better,  an; 
ye'U  run  less  risk  o'  exploding  some  day." 


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Extra  Finest  Levigated 
No.  1  Finest  Light  Pure 
PRECIP.  CHALK 


18  &  l/ll). 


Finest  Pure 
STARCH  POWDER 


Finest  Pure  TOILET 
OATMEAL,  SPECIAL 

Finest  Levigated 
"WHITE  EARTH" 

(Toilet  purposes) 


15/cwt. 


21/ Cwt. 


/10  ib. 


35/cwt. 


25/ovrt 


22/ owt. 


32/cwt. 


18/cwt. 


Carriage  Paid  to  railway  stations  within  200  miles  of  London  (or  allowance 
made  for  distances  beyond).      Terms,  lgsaQj  per  cent.  Cash  or  1  month  net. 


PATENTS  AND  TRADE  MARKS. 

There  are  many  worrying  difficulties  to  be  overcome  in  connection  with  the 
Registration  of  Trade  Marks  and  the  grant  of  Letters  Patent  which  mem- 
bers  of  the  Retail  and  Wholesale  Drug  Trarta  can  avoid  by  consulting  an 
efficient  agent,  who  would  undertake  all  the  trouble  for  an  inclusive  fee  and 
obtain  protection  in  the  United  Kingdom  and  abroad.  Advice  in  the  first 
instance  free.   Pamphlets  gratis. 

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Editorial  Articles. 


Bonded  Warehouses. 

The  Board  of  Customs  and  Excise  have  introduced  a  new- 
principle  into  the  bonded-warehouse  system  affecting  what 
may  be  called  the  "  life"  or  existence  of  a  warehouse.  In 
future  official  approval  will  only  be  given. for  a  specified 
term  of  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  the  Crown  locks 
may  be  removed,  or  a  further  extension  given  for  another 
set  period  of  time.  It  is  not  difficult  to  see  the  motive 
underlying  this  new  departure,  inasmuch  as  official  re- 
approval  means  a  systematic  raising  of  questions  and  ex- 
amination of  bases  justifying  the  further  use  of  every  par- 
ticular bonded  warehouse  in  the  kingdom.  Owing  to  shift- 
ing of  population,  of  trade,  and  other  causes,  bonded  ware- 
houses fall  into  disuse  and  may  justify  the  Revenue 
authorities  closing  the  "floors,"  vaults,  etc.,  or  merg- 
ing them  with  others  in  the  same  neighbourhood. 
Practically  the  same  trouble  and  routine  will  be 
entailed  in  re-approval  as  in  the  original  instance  of 
securing  approval.  Whether  this  new  official  regula- 
tion is  a  kind  of  pruning-knife  in  view  of  possible  ex- 
tensions of  the  bonding  principle  with  the  performance 
of  additional  trade  operations  therein  (such  as  are  now 
being  asked  for  by  pharmaceutical  manufacturers),  time 
alone  can  tell,  but  this  systematic  expiry  of  licence,  so  to 
speak,  and  overhauling  of  every  bonded  warehouse,  seems  to 
foreshadow  a  possible  increase  in  the  future.  The  Commis- 
sioners of  Customs  and  Excise  may  go  so  far  as  to  re- 
approve  certain  warehouses  without  fixing  a  time-limit,  but 
the  circumstances  of  each  warehouse  will  have  to  warrant 
the  Board  taking  this  exceptional  course.  The  new  regula- 
tion will  bring  into  use  two  kinds  of  new  bonds,  one  where 
the  sureties  are  individuals,  and  the  other  where  the  surety 
is  a  guarantee  society.  Seeing  that  these  bonds,  with  the 
sufficiency  of  the  obligor  and  sureties,  constitute  the  legal 
instrument  of  the  Crown  for  recovery  of  duty  and  adminis- 
tration of  Revenue  interests,  the  wording,  scope,  and  proper 
drawing-up  of  these  documents  are  matters  of  the  greatest 
importance  to  the  Revenue  authorities.  Once  a  year  the 
sufficiency  of  the  obligor  and  sureties  is  inquired  into  and 
reported  on  by  the  principal  official  in  charge  to  the  chief 
office,  and  any  cause  affecting  the  security  of  the  bond  is 
at  once  notified.  The  owner  of  a  bonded  warehouse  or 
warehouse-keeper  and  the  sureties  have  to  bind  themselves 
to  stand  as  security  should  duty  be  lost.  Revenue 
officials  thus  possess  a  certain  reserve  to  fall  back  upon — a 
principle  which,  if  applied  to  trade,  would  kill  bad  debts 
and  give  Official  Receivers  little  or  no  work  to  do. 


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49 


Opening  of  the  Session. 

This  week  is  notable  among  all  the  weeks  of  the  year 
as  the  beginning  of  a  new  session  of  the  medical  and 
science  schools.  Thousands  of  young  men  and  women  in 
London  and  the  other  educational  centres  of  the  country 
have  begun  or  renewed  their  studies  for  that  equipment 
which  will  give  them  the  ability,  as  proved  in  examina- 
tions, to  earn  their  living  as  medical  practitioners,  dentists, 
engineers,  chemists,  and,  we  were  going  to  say,  pharma- 
cists, but,  after  all,  the  reopening  of  the  School  of 
Pharmacy  in  Bloomsbury  Square  comes  almost  two  months 
after  other  schools  of  pharmacy  have  commenced  their 
educational  year.  Nevertheless,  the  opening  of  the  School 
of  Pharmacy  simultaneously  with  the  Medical  Session  is 
an  event  in  the  pharmaceutical  year,  and  an  incident 
which  deserves  attention — indeed,  on  the  present  occasion 
commands  it,  for  the  "old  man  eloquent,"  Mr.  David 
Howard,  delivered  an  address  which,  for  richness  in 
epigram,  originality  of  thought,  and  piquancy  of  utter- 
ance, has  never  been  excelled  in  the  Bloomsbury  lecture- 
theatre.  The  occasion  is  also  a  reminder  of  the  efforts 
made  by  Jacob  Bell  and  his  associates  about  seventy 
years  ago  to  place  the  practice  of  pharmacy  on  the  same 
footing  as  the  practice  of  medicine.  These  efforts  have 
signally  failed,  so  far  as  statutory  recognition  is  con- 
cerned, as  Parliament  has  not  given  to  those  who  are 
registered  under  the  Pharmacy  Acts  of  Great  Britain 
those  professional  duties  for  which  the  examinations  con- 
ducted by  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  are  a  test  of 
efficiency  to  perform.  Irish  pharmacists  have  been  more 
fortunate  in  this  respect,  for  they  have  since  1875  had 
a  practical  monopoly  of  the  dispensing  of  medical  pre- 
scriptions. This  fact  is  of  interest  in  connection  with 
the  efforts  to  place  the  practice  of  pharmacy  on  a  footing 
with  the  practice  of  medicine,  for  in  Ireland  we  do  not 
find  that  parity  of  status  in  the  profession  of  medicine  and 
pharmacy  which  our  forefathers  anticipated  would  occur. 
It  is  apparent,  indeed,  that  higher  education  in  pharmacy 
and  the  extended  curricula  which  are  provided  by  the 
School  of  Pharmacy  at  Bloomsbury  can  no  longer  be  re- 
garded as  making  for  professional  status,  but  are  taken 
for  the  good  that  is  in  them,  and  as  special  equipment  for 
the  more  specialised  practice  associated  with  the  higher- 
class  dispensing  businesses,  hospital  dispensaries,  and  the 
laboratories  of  manufacturing  and  wholesale  houses.  It 
is  also  believed  that  a  course  at  the  "  Square"  gives  men 
and  women  who  take  it  and  qualify  an  entree  to  official 
circles  and  a  prospect  of  sharing  in  those  little  offices 
and  opportunities  for  distinction  or  profit  which  are 
indissoluble  from  a  statutory  body  with  steady  income. 
It  is  not  now  claimed  that  the  only  perfect  pharmacist 
is  a  "Square"  man.  The  Society  has  had  several 
presidents  and  many  examiners  who  have  been  trained 
in  other  schools,  which  now  train  more  than  80  per  cent, 
of  the  candidates  for  the  qualifying  examination.  The 
fact  that  the  "  Square  "  School  trains  so  small  a  propor- 
tion of  those  who  are  registered  as  chemists  and  druggists 
may  be  taken  as  an  index  of  the  extent  to  which 
there  is  need  for  the  course  of  instruction  given 
there.  Less,  than  one  out  of  half  a  dozen  who  qualify 
require  it.  Nevertheless,  the  Council  of  the  Society  is  now 
considering  how  it  can  compel  all  to  go  through  such  a 
course  of  training  as  is  provided  in  the  "  Square"  School, 
and  a  handful  of  "Square"  men  have  committed  them- 
selves to  impose  upon  the  whole  trade  academic  conditions 
of  training  which  history  has  proved  to  be  unnecessary  for 
the  retail  drug-trade.    It  seems  to  us  that  their  know- 


ledge of  the  conditions  of  the  business  is  limited  to  the 
west  side  of  Bloomsbury  Square,  and  that  they  have 
shut  their  eyes  to  the  teaching  of  history.  The  intentions 
of  Jacob  Bell  were  good,  and  the  school  which  he  estab- 
lished has  borne  fruit  in  the  production  of  a  class  of 
higher-trained  pharmacists,  competent  to  perform  those 
duties  which  call  for  scientific  knowledge  and  expertness 
in  laboratory  operations.  But  only  a  fraction  of  those 
who  go  through  the  "Square"  get  the  opportunity  of  so 
exercising  their  qualifications.  The  rest  return  to  the 
comparatively  prosaic  art  of  shopkeeping,  in  which 
chemists  and  druggists  are  so  useful  to  the  community. 
The  experience  of  generations  of  them,  and  of  90  per 
cent,  of  those  now  in  business,  is  that  neither  the  business 
nor  the  public  call  for  that  higher  training  which  is  urged 
by  the  hyper-curriculumists.  Apparently  the  Council  is 
committed  to  do  something  in  that  direction ;  but  it  is 
earnestly  to  be  desired  that  the  wisest  counsels  may  pre- 
vail, so  that  the  change  provided  by  the  1908  Act  may  be 
introduced  gradually  and  with  the  fullest  recognition  of 
the  conditions  of  the  business  and  the  requirements  of 
the  men  who  follow  it. 

Essential  Oils. 

The  revision  by  Messrs.  Chas.  A.  Hill  and  John  C. 
Umney  of  their  suggested  factors  for  essential  oils  to  be 
included  in  the  next  British  Pharmacopoeia  gives  us  an 
opportunity  of  contrasting  their  figures  with  those  of  the 
other  Pharmacopoeias  of  most  recent  dates — French,  Swiss, 
and  the  United  States.  Refractive  indices  are  not  given 
in  any  Pharmacopoeia  (except  in  the  French  Codex  for 
turpentine)  ;  but  it  is  understood  that  the  forthcoming 
edition  of  the  German  Pharmacopoeia  will  prescribe  this 
factor  where  it  is  useful  in  determining  the  purity,  or 
otherwise,  of  any  substance.  Optical  rotation  is  given  in 
the  French  Codex  and  in  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia, 
and  in  the  Swiss  Pharmacopoeia  the  determination  of  these 
constants  is  not  prescribed ;  but  they  are  given  in  a  table 
in  the  Appendix  as  information  only.  Before  describing 
the  several  essential  oils,  the  French  and  Swiss  Pharma- 
copoeias give  particulars  of  the  general  tests  applicable  to 
all  essential  oils,  and  intended  to  reveal  the  presence  of 
the  more  common  adulterants.  The  following  are  brief 
resumes  : 

Feench  Codex. 

A  drop  of  essential  oil  on  filter-paper  should  not  leave  on 
evaporation  a  fatty  stain.  Twenty-five  c.c.  of  oil  is  to  be  dis- 
tilled on  a  water-bath  for  fifteen  to  twenty  minutes,  nothing 
should  distil  over  (alcohol).  If  there  should  be  a  distillate,  add 
to  it  0.1  to  0.15  gram  of  carbonate  of  potassium  and  a  few  drops 
of  a  solution  of  iodine  in  potassium  iodide,  then  heat  on  a. 
water-bath.  If  the  liquid  contains  alcohol,  its  presence  will 
be  perceptible  by  the  formation  of  iodoform.  Another  test 
for  alcohol  consists  in  the  introduction  of  a  few  c.c.  of  oil  in  a. 
long  and  narrow  well-dried  test-tube,  closed  with  a  plug  of 
cotton-wool  containing  a  crystal  of  fuchsin.  On  warming  the 
oil  the  cotton-wool  will  assume,  a  red  colour  should  alcohol 
be  present,  due  to  the  solution  of  fuchsin  in  the  condensed 
alcohol.  This'  is  a  very  delicate  test  for  revealing  traces  of 
alcohol.  Another  test  mentioned  is  to  shake  equal  volumes 
of  oil  and  glycerin  in  a  graduated  test-tube  and  allow  the 
mixture  to  stand  for  some  hours.  If  alcohol  is  present,  the 
volume  of  the  mixture  will  show  a  decrease. 

The  Swiss  Pharmacopoeia. 

Attention  is  drawn  to  the  presence  of  alcohol,  turpentine, 
benzol,  chloroform,  mineral  and  fatty  oils.  The  tests  for 
alcohol  are  substantially  the  same  as  those  in  the  Codex.  Oil 
of  turpentine,  benzol,  and  chloroform  are  recognisable  by 
their  boiling-points  when  the  oil  is  submitted  to  a  fractionated 
distillation,  and  also  by  the  following  chemical  reactions  : 
Oil  of  turpentine  by  the  formation  of  crystals  of  pinene  nitroso- 
chloride  when  treated  with  glacial  acetic  acid,  amyl  nitrite, 
and  hydrochloric  add  ;  benzol  by  the  formation  of  nitrobenzol 
when  treated  with   nitric  acid;    and  chloroform  by  the 


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October  8,  1910 


formation  of  benzo-iso-nitrile  when  heated  with  solution  of 
potassium  hydroxide  and  aniline.  Mineral  oils  separate  and 
appear  on  the  surface  on  the  addition  of  alcohol  to  an  adul- 
terated sample  of  essential  oil ;  after  washing  the  separated 
portion  with  alcohol,  its  indifference  to  alcoholic  solution  of 
potassium  hydroxide,  sulphuric  and  nitric  acid  should  be 
tested.  Fatty  oils  remain  as  a  residue  on  evaporation ;  they 
are  recognised  by  saponification  with  potassium  hydroxide, 
and  when  heated  in  a  test-tube  with  potassium  bisulphate 
they  produce  acrolein 

In  the  table  on  p.  51  the  data  proposed  by  Messrs.  Hill 
and  TJmney  (as  revised)  are  compared  with  the  demands  of 
the  French,  Swiss,  and  United  States  Pharmacopoeias,  the 
optical  rotation  alluded  to  in  the  Appendix  to  the  Swiss 
Pharmacopoeia  being  also  included.  Temperatures  are  in 
degrees  Centigrade.  Unless  otherwise  stated,  Messrs.  H;ll 
and  Umney's  data  refer  to  a  temperature  of  15.5°  C.  for 
specific  gravities,  20°  C.  for  optical  rotation,  and  25°  C. 
for  refractive  index.  In  the  case  of  the  United  States 
all  temperatures,  unless  otherwise  stated,  refer  to  25°  C. 
In  the  case  of  the  French  and  Swiss  Pharmacopoeias  the 
temperature  understood  is  15°  C.  In  the  table  Sp.  Gr.= 
Specific  gravity,  O.R.  =  Optical  rotation,  R.I.  =  Refractive 
index,  Sol.  =  Solubility  in  alcohol  (90  per  cent.).  Per- 
centage in  the  Codex  and  Swiss  Pharmacopoeia  refers  to 
weight. 

Legislation  as  to  Proprietaries. 

"The  Lancet"  of  October  1  contains  an  unusually 
frank  statement  in  regard  to  the  proposals  for  a  Royal 
or  Departmental  Commission  to  inquire  into  the  sale  of 
proprietary  medicines.  While  sympathising  with  them, 
our  contemporary  says  : 

"  We  have  been  recently  told  by  a  medical  man,  a  member 
of  Parliament  and  warm  supporter  of  the  Government,  that 
the  medical  profession  is  suspect  in  the  House  of  Commons 
•  as  being  '  out  for  fees,'  so  that  if  any  public  meeting  were 
organised  under  professional  auspices  the  Government 
would  look  at  it  askance.  Given  the  public  meeting  and  its 
committee  mainly  of  laymen,  we  would  again  suggest  for 
consideration  a  remedy  which  we  have  upon  many  previous 
occasions  put  forward  in  these  columns — namely,  the 
licensing  of  all  quacks  of  whatever  shade.  No  one  could  say 
that  this  would  be  a  legal  recognition  of  quackery,  for 
quackery  is  perfectly  legal  now.  Neither  could  it  be  argued 
that  the  possession  of  a  licence  would  imply  a  Government 
guarantee  of  the  soundness  of  the  treatment." 

A  simultaneous  issue  of  the  "British  Medical  Journal" 
gives  analyses  of  certain  rheumatism  cures,  and  in  com- 
menting upon  them  the  "B.M.J."  says  its  disclosures 
furnish  "  further  evidence  of  the  necessity  for  dealing 
with  this  evil  by  legislation."  In  view  of  "  The  Lancet's  " 
statement  about  parliamentary  feeling  towards  medical 
proposals,  there  seems  little  likelihood  of  the  legislation 
being  supported  by  the  Government. 

The  Dentists  Bill. 

The  formation  of  the  Chemists'  Dental  Society  is  justified 
by  an  editorial  article  in  the  journal  of  the  British  Dental 
Association  of  October  1.  "  W.  H.  C,"  the  writer  of  it, 
did  not  start  out  with  that  object  in  view,  but  before  he 
finishes  the  five-page  article  entitled  "Chemist  and  Druggist- 
Dentists  "  he  clearly  demonstrates  that  any  combination  to 
checkmate  the  actions  of  such  persons  as  he  has  been  justi- 
fied. In  his  article  "  W.  H.  C."  displays  the  irascibility 
and  peevishness  of  a  spoilt  child  who  cannot  get  what  he 
wants.  The  first  two  pages  of  the  article  are  an  attempt 
to  poke  fun  at  those  chemists  and  druggists  who  are  en- 
deavouring to  protect  their  interests  as  regards  dental 
matters  by  the  formation  of  a  society.  The  article  then 
proceeds  to  say  that 

"  if  a  limitation  or  prohibition  of  irregular  practice  .  .  .  is  to 
be  bought  by  any  measureof 'consideration,'  .  .  .  those  already 


d:K only  no™Mlly)  m  a  definite  and  digtinct 
nWJ®-  I  degree  of  recognition  and  protection,  cannot 
»wt  hi"  f°rm^VauPeriS  iov  an  exemption  which  might  justi- 
ably  be  accorded  by  Parliament  to  those  with  no  other  means- 
of  livelihood.  .  .  .  But  lines  must  needs  be  drawn  and' 
boundaries  set  between  affiliated  spheres  of  work." 
This  practically  amounts  to  a  refutation  of  the  principle 
laid  down  in  Section  6  (c)  of  the  Dentists  Act,  which  recog- 
nised the  practice  of  dentistry  "  either  separately,  or  in, 
conjunction  with  the  practice  of  medicine,  surgery,  or  phar- 
macy." "  W.  H.  C."  then  becomes  abusive  without  doing 
harm  to  chemists,  and  in  the  concluding  page  of  the  article- 
makes  the  following  extraordinary  statement : 

.  "  ^e  take  the  opportunity  of  remonstrating  respecting  the 
intent  of  a  widespread  quotation  of  certain  of  our  editorial 
remarks  upon  the  Draft  Bill,  the  principles  of  which  were 
amrmed  by  a  majority  of  members  assembled  at  the  annual 
general  meeting  in  Liverpool.  Our  description  of  this  con- 
fidential document,  to  the  effect  that  it  was  but  in  a  transi- 
tional stage  has  been  represented  in  several  quarters  as  an 
admission  that  the  Association  was  contemplating  a  '  change 
of  front  '  or  '  climbing  down.'  So  far  from  this  being  the- 
case,  we  are  driven  to  point  out  that  the  provisional  draft  of 
the  proposed  Bill  has  not  even  been  published  in  our  pagesr 
but  was  merely  sent  out  to  members  onlv,  for  their  information 
in  its  discussion.  The  publication  of 'it,  or  quotations  from- 
it,  have  been  absolutely  unauthorised  and  unofficial." 
It  is,  in  our  opinion,  rather  late  in  the  day  to  try  to  relieve 
the  British  Dental  Association  of  the  attempt  at  legislation. 
The  fact  of  the  matter  is  that  the  Draft  Bill  has  been 
received  with  such  scorn,  and  the  high  aspirations  of  persons- 
of  the  "  W.  H.  C."  type  are  so  much  at  variance  with  the 
needs  of  the  case,  and  so  unlikely  to  receive  support  in  the 
highest  quarters,  that  the  promoters  feel  that  they  are- 
beaten. 


Poisoning  Cases* 


Eight  fatalities,  including  one  misadventure,  have  beera 
reported  since  our  last  issue. 

Carbolic  Acid. — At  Landhead,  near  Ballymoney,  co. 
Antrim,  Anne  Murray  (8)  died  from  intentional  self -adminis- 
tration of  carbolic-acid  poison. 

Chlorodyne  taken  in  accidental  overdose  caused  the  death 
of  a  Highbury  clerk  named  James  Percy  Humphrey  (66). 

Oxalic  Acid  was  used  to  ensure  self-destruction  by  James- 
Buss  (58),  sawyer,  Catford. — At  an  inquest  on  Alice  Mary 
Stupple,  who  committed  suicide  at  Heme  Bay  by  taking- 
oxalic  -acid,  Mr.  Harold  Pyman,  chemist  and  druggist. 
14  Promenade  Central,  Heme  Bay,  said  he  supplied  a  woman 
recently  with  a  pennyworth  of  oxalic  acid  crystals  for  cleaning- 
purposes,  but  he  could  not  say  that  deceased  was  the  customer. 
He  gave  her  the  usual  warning.  Mr.  Thomas  Boots  Corn- 
foot,  chemist,  of  Mortimer  Street,  also  deposed  that  deceased 
had  purchased  a  pennyworth  of  laudanum  at  his  pharmacy. 
Dr.  Bowes  said  he  found  sufficient  traces  of  oxalic  acid  in  the 
stomach  to  cause  death,  but  he  could  not  find  any  laudanum. 

Salt  of  Lemon. — At  Paddington  an  inquiry  was  commenced; 
on  October  3  into  the  death  of  Bertha  Duncan,  aged  twenty- 
seven,  the  wife  of  Mr.  Alexander  Duncan,  chemist  and  drug- 
gist, 2  Chichester  Street,  Paddington,  London,  W.,  who  died1 
from  salt  of  lemon  poisoning.  Mr.  Duncan  stated  that  he- 
knew  of  no  wrong  or  anxiety  which  his  wife  had,  except  that 
she  had  suffered  from  consumption.  The  inquiry  was  ad- 
journed. 

Spirit  of  Salt.—~Ellen  Hughes  (44),  the  wife  of  a  Great 
Northern  railway  employee  at  Barnet,  committed  suicide  by 
taking  spirit  of  salt. — Alfred  Miles,  wholesale  florists' 
assistant,  died  in  the  King's  College  Hospital  from  corrosive- 
poisoning  due  to  this  acid. — The  self-inflicted  death  at  Burton- 
of  Thomas  Adryan  Asbury  (49),  who  was  out  of  work,  was  due 
to  the  same  poison.  At  the  inquest  Dr.  Buchanan  said  the 
bottle  from  which  deceased  drank  contained  a  mixture  of 
hydrochloric  acid  and  zinc  chloride. 

"  The  Peesceibeb  "  for  October  is  the  largest  number  that 
Mr.  Thomas  Stephenson,  137  George  Street,  Edinburgh  (the 
editor),  has  issued,  and  it  contains  several  notes  of  special' 
interest  to  pharmacists — e.g.  "  No.  606,"  Rhu6  toxicodendron, 
urea-quinine  as  an  anaesthetic,  two  pages  on  tropical  diseases,, 
dental  notes,  therapeutic  summary,  etc. 


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53 


Oleum 


Anisi 

.Aurantii 
"Cajuputi 
<Carui 

Caryophylli 


•Cinnamomi 
(Ceylon) 


Sp.  Gr. 
O.R. 
R.I. 
Sol. 

-  Aaethol 

content. 

I  cong.-  pt. 
Vremeltng-pt. 
(  Sp.  Gr. 
J  O.R. 
I  B.I- 
C  Sp.  Gr. 
|  O.R. 
-,  R.I. 
^  Cineol 
I  Sp.  Gr. 
J  O.R. 
I  R.I. 
I         Sp.  Gr. 

O.R. 
R.I. 
Sol. 
Bugenol 
Sp.  Gr. 
O.R. 
R.I. 
Sol. 


Hill  and  Uraney 


French 


lEuca^pti 


Juniperi 


ILavanilulce 


ILimonis 


."Mentha? 
pip. 


IMvristica; 


llosffi 


Cinnani: 
1  aldehyde 
f         Sp.  Gr. 

O.R. 
R.I. 
8ol. 

I  Cineol 
f         Sp.  Gr. 

O.R. 

I  R.I. 
I  Sol. 
Sp.  Gr. 
O.R. 
R.I. 
Sol. 

(         Sp.  Gr. 

O.R. 
R.I. 

Sol. 

|  Esters 

/         Sp.  Gr. 

O.R. 


0.975  to  0.99D  (20°  C.) 

-  2°  to  +  1° 
1  552  to  1.558 

1  in  3 

at  least  80  %  of  oil  should 
distil  between  225°  and 
235°  C. 

about  10° 
15° 

0.847  to  0.854 
-f  92°  to  +  99° 
1.472  to  1.478 
0.919  to  0.930 
not  more  than  -  4° 
1.460  to  1.467 
4.5  c.c.  from  10  c.c.  oil 
0.91O  to  0.920 
+  75°  to  +  82° 
1.485  to  1.487 
1.047  to  1.070 

1.528  to  1.540 
1  in  3  ale.  (70%) 
at  least  80% 
1.000  to  1.040 

-  0°.5  to  -  1° 
1.572  to  1.582 

1  in  3  to  4  ale.  (70  %) 


55  to  75  % 
0.910  to  0.930 
+  10°  to  -  10° 

1  in  5  ale.  (70  %) 
at  least  55  % 
0.960  to  0.990 
+  6°  to  +  20° 
1.525  to  1.534 

linl 
0.862  to  0.890 

-  3°  to  -  15° 
1.472  to  1.488 

1  in  4  ale.  (95  %) 

0.883  to  0.900 

-  3°  to  -  10° 

1  in  3  ale.  (70  %) 
to  11  %  English ;  not 
less  than  30  %  foreign 
0.857  to  0.860 
+  58°  to  +  64° 


R.I. 

1.474  to  1.476 

Citral 

3  5  % 

Sp.  Gr. 

0.900  to  U°920 

O.R. 

-  20°  to  -  35° 

R.I. 

Menthol 

50  % 

Sp.  Gr. 

0.870  to  0.920 

O.R. 

+  13°  to  +  30° 

R.I. 

1.474  to  1.484 

Sol. 

1  in  3 

Sp.  Gr. 

(30°)  0.854  to  0.862 

O.R. 

-  2°  to  -  4° 

R.I. 

(25°C.)1.45R  to  1.465 

me'.ting-pt. 

20°  to  2i.5° 

Santali 


ftinapis 

volatile " 


Terebinth- 
ina>  rect. 


Tliymi 


Sp.  Gr. 
O.R. 
R.I. 
Sol. 


Sp.  Gr. 
O.R. 
R.I. 
Sol. 
Santalol. 
Sp.  Gr. 
distils 
between 
O.lt. 
Sp.  Gr. 
O.R. 


R.I. 

distils 

between 
Sp.  Gr. 
O.R. 
R.I. 
Sol. 

Phenols 


0.895  to  0.920 

0°  to  -f  15° 
1.463  to  1.470 
1  in  1  ale.  (90  %) 
10  %  borneol,  and  at  least 
i  %  bornyl  acetate 
0.973  to  0.985 
-  16°  to  -  20° 
1.498  to  1.508 
1  in  6  ale.  (70  %)  20°  C. 
90  % 
1.018  to  1.023 
148J  and  156° 


0.860  to  0.870 


1.465  to  1.4E0 
160°  and  130° 

0.920  to  0.950 
slightly  hwogyrate 
1.480  to  1.495 
1  in  2  ale.  (80  %) 

not  less  than  25% 


Swiss 


United  States 


Pimp.  0.980  to  0.990  (17°  C.) 
slightly  laevogyrate 

1  in  3 

80  to  90  % 


18°  to  14° 

0.848  to  0.853 
at  least  +  95°  (15°  to  20°) 


1.055  to  1.C68 
slightly  la?vogyrate 

1  in  2  ale.  (70  %) 
70  to  85  % 
1.024  to  1.040 
slightly  iKvogyrate 

in  all  proportions  of  ale. 
(90  %) 

65  to  75  % 
0.910  to  0.930 
slightly  dextrogyrate 

in  all  proportions  ale.  95  % 


0.865  to  0.885 


turbid  solution  1  in  5 
tile.  95  */^) 

0.882,  to  0.S95 


1  in  3  ale.  (70  %) 
30  to  40  % 

0.857  to  0.862 
dextrogyrate  +  57°  to  + 

67°  (15°  to  20°) 
(the  deflection  of  a  freshly 
distilled  sample  should 
not  be  less  than  the 
above  figures  by  5°) 

0.895  to  0.920 


(20°)  0.855  to  0.865 

becomes  cloudy  at  23.5° 

0.930  to  0.920 
dextrogyrate 

1  in  $  ale.  (90%) 


0.975  to  0.985 
-17°  to  -19° 

1  in  5  ale.  (70%)  20°  C. 
90  to  98% 
1.017  at  10°  C. 
boils  at  150° 


0.864 
-40°.32 


1.4648  (25°  C.) 
boils  about  156° 

0.909  to  0.950 


1  in  3  of  a  mixture  of  100 
ale.  (90  %)  and  14  water 

30% 


0.984  to  0.994 
up  to  -2°  (25°  C.) 

1  in  5  (1  in  200  ale.  60  p.c.) 


15° 


0.920  to  0.930 
up  to  -2°. 40 


0.  905  to  0.915 

-{-  70°  to  +  85° 

1.  (540  to  1.070 
up  to  — 1°.10 

1  in  2  ale.  (70%) 
85% 
Cassia  oil 


0.965  to  0.977 
-f  12°  to  +  24° 

in  all  proportions 
0.860  to  0.885 
to  -  11° 

1  in  10 

0.882  to  0.895 
-  3°  to  -  9° 

1  in  3  ale.  (70  %) 
at  least  35  % 

0.857  to  0.861 
+■  58°  to  +  65°  (20°  C.) 


0.900  to  0.920 
50  %  at  least 


(20°)  0.855  to  0.870 
up  to  -  4°  (Bulgarian) 

can  still  be  dropped  at  20° 


0.900  to  920 
+  0°.45  to  +  15° 

1  in  1  ale.  (90%) 


0.975  to  0.985 
-  17°  to  -  19° 

1  in  5  a1c.  (70%)  20°  C. 
90%  at  least 
1.016  to  1.030 
147°  and  152° 


0.860  to  0.871 
-23°  to  -  40°  for  French 
up    to    +  14°. 17  for 
American 

155°  and  1623 

0.900  to  0.935 
about  —  3° 

1  in  h  ale.  (90%)  ;  1  in  3  ale. 
(80%) 
20%  at  least 


0.975  to  0.988 
up  to  -2°  (25°  C.) 

1  in  5 


not  below  15°  C. 

0.842  to  0.846 
not  less  than  +  95°  (25-  C.) 

0.915  to  0.925 
not  over  -2°  (25°  C.) 

not  less  than  55% 
0.900  to  0.910. 
+  70°  to  +  80°  (25°  C.) 

1.040  to  1.060 


I  in  2  ale.  (70%) 
80% 
Cassia  oil 


0.905  to  0.925 
not  more  than  4-  10°  (25°  C.) 

I  in  3  ale.  (70  %) 
50% 
0.953  to  0.973 


1  in  1 

O.860  to  0.880 


0.875  to  0.910 
I  in  3  ale.  (70  %) 


0.851  to  0.855 
not  less  than  +  £8°  (25°  C.) 
(the  freshly  distilled  oil  should 
not  differ  from  the  above 
figure  by  mora  than  2°) 


4% 
0.894  to  0.914 
20°  to  -  33°  (25°  C.) 

50% 
0.884  to  0.921 
dextrogyrate 

1  in  3 
0.855  to  0.865 


Congealing-point,  between  18° 

and  22°  C. 
Saponification  value  10  to  17 
0.894  to  0.912 
not  more  than  -f  15°  (25°  C.) 

about  1  in  I  ale.  (90  %) 
2.5  %  bornyl  acetate,  and  10  % 
total  borneol 

0.935  to  0.980 
-  16°  to  -  20°  (23°  C.) 

1  in  5  ale.  (70  %) 
not  less  than  90  % 
1.013  to  1.020 
148°  and  152° 


0.860  to  0.865 


15:°  and  162° 

O.90O  to  0.930 
not  more  than  -  3°  (25°  C.) 

1  in  J  ale.  (93  %) ;  1  in  1  to  2  ale. 

(80  %) 

at  least  20  % 


The  French  Codex  describes  anise  oil  from  Pimpinella 
and  from  Illicium  under  two  separate  titles,  but  the  text 
of  both  monographs  is  almost  identical.    The  eame  specific 

Index  Folio 


gravity  is  given  for  both  oils,  except  that  the  temperature 
in  the  case  of  Illicium  oil  is  given  at  15°  C. 


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52 


THE  CHEMIST  AND  DRUGGIST 


OCTOBEB  8,  1910 


Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain. 

COUNCIL-MEETING. 


The  Council  met  on  Wednesday  for  the  first  time  since 
August.  Mr.  Harrison  and  Mr.  Park  were  the  only  absentees. 
The  President  welcomed  the  return  of  Mr.  Newsholme  after 
his  recent  indisposition.  The  finances  were  reported  to  be 
in  a  satisfactory  condition.  The  Benevolent  Fund  Committee 
recommended  that  in  December  the  list  of  annuitants  be  in- 
creased by  three.  The  Vice-President,  on  behalf  of  the 
Education  and  Examinations  Committee,  said  that  a  cur- 
riculum scheme  is  now -almost  complete,  and  will  be  submitted 
to  members  of  the  Society  during  the  coming  winter.  Mr. 
White  and  Mr.  Peck  submitted  a  lengthy  report  on  the  Inter- 
national Congress  of  Pharmacy  at  Brussels,  and  this  gave 
rise  to  a  discussion,  in  the  course  of  which  were  Mr.  Gifford 
gave  expression  to  views  which  were  resented  by  the  President. 


The  Council  met  at  17  Bloomsbury  Square,  London, 
W.C.,  on  Wednesday,  October  5,  at  11  a.m.,  Mr.  J.  F. 
Harrington  (President)  in  the  chair.  There  were  also 
present  Messrs.  W.  L.  Currie  (Vice-President),  W.  H. 
Gibson  (Treasurer),  C.  B.  Allen.  A.  R  Campkin.  W.  G. 
Cross,  J.  H.  Cuff,  F.  J.  Gibson,  R.  L.  Gifford,  D.  Gilmour, 
Albert  Hagon,  A.  E.  Hobbs,  E.  T.  Neathercoat,  G.  T.  W. 
Newsholme,  F.  A.  Rogers,  C.  Symes,  R.  C.  Walshaw, 
Edmund  White,  and  J.  Rymer  Young. 

The  minutes  of  the  last  Council-meeting  were  briefly 
outlined  by  the  Secretary,  and  approved.  The 
President  then  said  that  before  the  business  of  the 
meeting  was  proceeded  with  he  desired,  on  behalf  of  the 
members  of  the  Council,  to  say  how  very  pleased  they 
were  to  see  Mr.  Newsholme  back  with  them.  (Applause.) 
They  had  all  missed  him  from  recent  meetings,  and  were 
delighted  to  find  that  he  was  once  more  able  to  participate 
in  the  business  of  the  Council.  (Applause.) 

Mr.  Newsholme  briefly  thanked  the  members  for  the 
generous  and  kindly  reception. 

The  Chairman  intimated  letters  of  regret  for  absence 
from  Mr.  Harrison  and  Mr.  Park,  adding  that  Mr. 
Harrison's  health  prevented  him  attending,  while  Mr. 
Park's  absence  was  accounted  for  by  family  reasons. 

Elections  and  Restorations. 
It  was  agreed  to  elect  twelve  new  members  of  the 
Society,  and  twenty  others  were  restored  to  membership, 
while  a  large  number  of  student-associates  were  enrolled. 

Finance. 

The  Finance  Committee's  report  was  submitted  by  Mr. 
Gibson,  the  Treasurer. 

The  receipts  of  the  General  Fund  during  the  month 
were  : 

£      s.  d. 

Penalties  and  costs    150  14  6 

Subscriptions    88   4  0 

"  Journal  "  and  other  publications  ...  1,256  17  3 

Restoration-fees   6  10 

Registration-fees  ...    '   170    2  0 

Examination-fees    1,075   7  0 

£2,747   5  9 

With  the  balance  remaining  from  the  previous  month 
the  sum  of  2,986Z.  13s.  4d.  is  in  hand.  The  following 
amounts  were  recommended  for  payment  : 

£      s.  d. 

"  Journal  "  and  publications  ...  1,186  10  2 

Stationery,  etc   ...       52  10  2 

Current  expenses   450    0  0 

Salaries,  etc._      _   310    5  0 

School  examinations    65  14  4 

Law  charges    68    5  6 

House    380   6  0 

£2,513  11  2 

The  balances  to  the  credit  of  the  Benevolent  Fund  were 
as  follows  : 

£  d. 

Current  account    ...                               998  12  7 

Donation  account                                    53   5  1 

Orphan  Fund                                          71  18  4 


The  Treasurer,  in  moving  the  adoption  of  the  report 
and  recommendations  of  the  Finance  Committee,  remarked 
that  the  figures  were  rather  large,  but,  when  they  took 
into  consideration  that  they  represented  two  months,  he 
thought  it  would  be  agreed  that  they  were  not  abnormal . 
He  was  pleased  to  report  that  the  balance  of  the  General 
Account  was  at  least  200?.  more  than  it  was  a  year  ago 
— (Hear,  hear) — and  that  the  payments  were  nearly  200/. 
less.  That,  he  said,  placed  the  Council  in  a  very  good 
position.  He  was  also  pleased  to  remark  that  they  had 
received  for  the  Benevolent  Fund  special  contri- 
butions, one  of  which  was  from  the  Hull  Chemists'  Asso- 
ciation, and  amounted  to  21.  12s.  6d.,  the  proceeds  of  a 
smoking  concert.  A  little  while  ago  they  had  received 
two  applications  for  boxes,  one  from  Miss  Kate  Horniblow, 
Llandudno,  and  the  other  from  Mr.  Robert  Sharpies, 
Leeds.  The  former  had  collected  11.,  which  she  had  for- 
warded, and  the  latter  had  collected  3s.  The  amounts  were 
small,  but  they  were  nevertheless  very  acceptable.  Dealing 
with  the  Benevolent  Fund,  the  Treasurer  said  that  the 
amount  to  credit  was  300Z.  more  than  at  the  corresponding 
period  of  last  year.  While  he  did  not  care  to  go  into 
particulars,  he  expressed  a  desire  to  refer  to  some  property 
that  the  Society  have  at  Paddington  Green.  There  are 
two  buildings,  and  the  lease  of  one  of  them  would  fall 
in  in  the  course  of  the  year.  The  other  lease  will  fall  in 
after  the  lapse  of  another  year.  In  the  former  instance 
the  tenant  had  agreed  to  pay  190?.,  instead  of  5Sl.  as 
formerly  for  ground  rent,  and  this  arrangement  would 
continue  for  five  years.  When  the  lease  of  the  second 
property  fell  in,  the  fund  would  be  benefited  to  the  extent 
of  600?.  a  year,  instead  of  110Z.  as  at  present  under  the 
existing  arrangements. 

Dr.  Symes  seconded  the  proposition,  which  was  agreed  to. 

The  Registrar  remarked  that,  in  view  of  the  expiry 
of  the  lease  at  Paddington  Green,  he  had  drawn  up  the 
following  resolution  for  submission  to  the  meeting  :  "  That 
the  application  of  Messrs.  Brooke,  Phillips  &  Co.  for  an 
extension  of  the  lease  at  7  Paddington  Green  be  granted 
on  the  conditions  referred  to  in  the  application.  Also, 
that  the  corporate  seal  of  the  Society  be  affixed  to  the 
endorsement  of  the  lease."  This  was  unanimously  agreed 
to. 

Benevolent  Fund. 

The  report  of  the  Benevolent  Fund  Committee  having 
been  considered  in  camera,  Mr.  A.  S.  Campkin  moved  its 
adoption.  He  remarked  that  an  unusually  protracted  meet- 
ing had  been  held  the  previous  day,  when  the  business  before 
them  was  thoroughly  discussed.  Applications  for  assist- 
ance had  been  received  from  ten  widows  and  three  members. 
After  full  consideration  it  was  decided  to  grant  assistance 
to  seven  of  the  widows  and  to  two  of  the  members,  the  sum 
in  all  amounting  to  130?.  Grants  were  also  made  to  two 
widows  out  of  the  Casual  Fund  amounting  to  51.  and  21. 
The  balance  to  the  credit  of  the  fund  amounted  to  541?. 
Mr.  Campkin  proceeded  to  analyse  the  financial  position, 
showing  that  380?.  would  be  required  before  the  end  of  the 
year.  A  number  of  casual  annuitants — people  who  came  for 
assistance  from  year  to  year  and  to  whom  they  made  grants 
of  from  13?.  to  201.  a  year — had  applied  for  old-age  pen- 
sions, and  in  these  cases  they  had  so  far  modified  the 
amounts  given  as  not  to  carry  them  (the  recipients)  above 
the  31?.  per  annum  stipulated  by  the  Act,  which  would 
place  them  in  a  different  position  in  regard  to  the  receipt 
of  old-age  pensions.  He  thought  that  during  the  next 
year  the  committee  would  be  justified  in  submitting  to 
the  Council  an  amended  proposal  with  regard  to  annui- 
tants. He  would  make  it  quite  clear,  however,  that 
whatever  action  they  might  recommend,  it  would  not  be 
retrospective.  He  suggested  that  a  proposal  should  be 
adopted  differentiating  the  annuitants,  and  this  proposal 
would  be  submitted  at  a  subsequent  meeting. 

Mr.  David  Gilmour  seconded  the  motion,  and  remarked 
that  recently  there  had  been  no  fewer  than  eight  deaths. 


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53 


and  that  there  should  be  no  risk  in  adopting  the  recom- 
mendations made  by  the  committee.  He  gave  expression 
to  the  hope  that  members  of  the  Society  throughout  the 
country  would  be  loyal  to  the  fund,  which  should  be 
kept  prominently  before  their  notice.  He  endorsed  Mr. 
Campkin's  observation  that  the  fund  occupied  a  sounder 
basis  since  the  old-age  pensions  came  into  force. 

It  was  accordingly  agreed  that  three  new  annuitants  be 
placed  upon  the  list  and  that  the  election  take  place  on 
December  13,  1910. 

Examinations  Report. 
The  Registrar,  reporting  on  the  examinations,  stated 
that  in  England  and  Wales  there  had  been  154  Minor 
candidates,  of  whom  49  passed  and  105  failed.  In  Scot- 
land there  were  55  candidates,  of  whom  32  passed  and 
23  failed. 

Local  Associations. 
Mr.  E.  T.  Neathercoat  submitted  a  report  of  the 
Local  Associations  Committee,  of  which  he  is  chairman. 
This  stated  that  during  the  meetings  of  the  British  Phar- 
maceutical Conference  at  Cambridge  he  had  an  oppor- 
tunity of  discussing  with  representative  pharmacists  from 
various  parts  of  the  kingdom  the  question  of  closer  union 
between  the  Society  and  local  associations.  The  objects 
of  the  committee  were  generally  approved.  The  report 
went  on  to  say  that  the  committee  having  had  communi- 
cated to  it  the  result  of  a  departmental  conference  on 
the  organisation  of  the  Society  in  Scotland,  it  was  unani- 
mously resolved  that  the  existing  arrangement  whereby 
the  Executive  of  the  Society's  North  British  Branch,  in 
conjunction  with  the  Society's  Secretary  in  Scotland,  have 
charge  of  the  organising  procedure  in  Scotland,  should  not 
be  disturbed,  as  it  was  working  satisfactorily  at  present. 
The  Secretary  had  reported  that  from  the  data  he  had 
collected  it  appeared  that  some  twenty  centres  where  local 
associations  existed,  or  had  existed,  exhibited  marked 
signs  of  lack  of  vitality  and  seemed  to  call  for  immediate 
action.  The  committee  resolved  that  the  places  mentioned 
should  be  visited  by  members  of  the  committee  during  the 
winter  session.  It  was  agreed  to  report  to  the  Council 
that,  in  the  view  of  the  committee,  it  would  be  an  ad- 
vantage and  tend  to  economise  organising  effort  if  invita- 
tions to  Councillors  for  association  functions  could  be 
forwarded  through  the  committee.  Mr.  Neather:oat, 
in  moving  the  adoption  of  the  report,  commented  upon  the 
proposals,  and  said  the  hope  was  that  in  the  course  of 
time  arrangements  would  be  so  complete  that  all  the 
associations  would  receive  at  least  one  visit  from 
a  representative  of  the  Society  in  the  course  of 
the  year.  Among  the  visitations  arranged  were  the  fol- 
lowing :  The  President — Colchester,  Reading,  and  Wat- 
ford ;  the  Vice-President — Hartlepools,  Leeds,  Bradford, 
and  other  districts  ;  Mr.  Gibson — Wigan,  Worcester,  and 
possibly  Derby;  Mr.  Hagon — Newbury,  Swansea,  and 
possibly  Pontypridd ;  Mr.  Walshaw — Burnley,  South- 
port,  and  Wakefield.  He  (Mr.  Neathercoat)  would  visit 
Bristol,  Birmingham,  Weymouth,  and  Durham.  Mr.  Cuff 
had  consented  to  visit  Croydon  and  one  or  two  other 
places. 

Mr.  W.  L.  Currie  seconded  the  adoption  of  the  report, 
which  was  unanimously  agreed  to. 

A  Curriculum  Promised. 

The  President  intimated  that  the  report  of  the  Educa- 
tion and  Examination  Committee  would  be  dealt  with 
in  committee,  and  added  that  in  connection  therewith 
it  was  Mr.  Currie's  desire  to  make  a  statement  in  public. 

Mr.  Currie  :  I  have  a  great  deal  I  should  like  to  say 
in  public,  but  I  have  considered  it  advisable — and  I 
quite  agree  with  what  the  President  has  said — that  it 
would  be  better  to  take  the  report  of  the  committee  in 
private.  I  should,  in  the  meantime,  like  it  to  go  forth 
to  the  members  of  the  Society  throughout  the  country 
that  we  are  very  seriously  considering  the  powers  which 
we  have  vested  in  us  by  our  last  Act  of  Parliament  re- 
garding the  institution  of  a  curriculum  and  the  division 
of  the  examination.  We  have  given  it  very  serious  con- 
sideration, and  a  scheme  is  before  us  just  now  which  we 
think,  as  a  committee,  ought  in  fairness  to  be  submitted 
for  the  approval  of  the  two  Boards  of  Examiners  before 


we  put  it  before  the  members  of  the  Society  throughout 
the  country.  Therefore,  I  only  want  it  to  be  known  at 
the  present  time — and  you  know  there  has  been  a  great 
correspondence  going  on  in  the  journals  for  the  past  few 
weeks  relative  to  this  very  point — that  the  Council  and 
the  committee  are  charged  with  a  particular  object,  and 
have  not  forgotten  what  has  been  communicated  to  the 
journals.  I  will  at  present  content  myself  with  the 
observation  that  a  scheme  is  under  consideration  which 
I  hope  will  soon  be  before  the  members  of  the  Society  for 
discussion — certainly  during  the  coming  winter. 

Parliamentary  and  General  Purposes. 

The  Registrar  read  the  report  of  this  committee.  It 
stated  that  the  Shops  (No.  2)  Bill  had  been  under  dis- 
cussion, and  had  been  remitted  to  the  Parliamentary  Sub- 
committee with  powers  to  secure  such  amendments  as 
would  result  in  a  minimum  of  restrictions.  With  reference 
to  the  letter  received  from  the  Queensland  Pharmaceutical 
Society  asking  for  reciprocity  in  the  recognition  of  certi- 
ficates, the  report  stated  that  a  reply  had  been  sent  giving 
a  confidential  explanation  of  the  reason  of  the  delay  that 
had  taken  place  in  the  drafting  of  by-laws  providing 
for  this. 

The  report  was  adopted. 

International  Congress  of  Pharmacy. 
Mr.  Edmund  White  and  Mr.  E.  S.  Peck,  who  were 
delegates  on  behalf  of  the  Society  to  the  International 
Congress  of  Pharmacy  at  Brussels,  submitted  a  lengthy 
report  in  regard  to  the  proceedings  and  their  reception. 
This  elicited  a  lengthy  and  at  one  stage  rather  heated 
discussion. 

Mr.  White,  replying  to  a  question  by  Mr.  Walshaw  as 
to  why  the  Brussels  Congress  did  not  officially  recognise 
the  British  Pharmaceutical  Society,  said  that  the  position 
of  the  pharmacist  in  this  country  was  absolutely  different 
from  that  in  any  other  civilised  country,  in  so  far  that 
while  here  matters  pharmaceutical  were  administered  by  a 
voluntary  body,  in  other  countries  they  were  administered 
by  the  State.  In  this  connection  he  expressed  the  belief 
that  the  members  of  the  calling  in  Great  Britain  did  not 
fully  realise  the  privilege  they  possessed.  "  They  main- 
tain, some  of  them  in  cold  blood,  that  they  are  entitled 
to  do  as  they  like.  That  is  freedom  run  riot,"  he  added. 
"  It  does  happen  very  often  that  when  the  Society  de- 
sires to  administer  a  very  simple  clause  in  the  interests 
of  its  members  and  to  prevent  others  usurping  their  rights 
■ — as,  for  example,  the  by-law  as  to  the  exhibition  of 
the  certificate — there  are  members  who  resent  being  told 
what  to  do  for  their  own  protection.  Such  a  condition  of 
things  seems  very  curious  to  me."    (Hear,  hear.) 

Mr.  Allen  said  that  the  singularity  of  the  British  Phar- 
macopoeia being  the  only  work  of  the  kind  in  the  world  in 
the  preparation  of  which  pharmacists  were  not  consulted  did 
not  reflect  great  credit  upon  the  pharmacy  of  this  country. 
A  good  many  things  would  have  to  be  altered  before  the 
pharmacist  occupied  the  position  to  which  he  was  entitled 
in  this  country. 

Dr.  Symes  having  described  the  position  referred  to  by 
Mr.  Allen  as  an  anomalous  one,  said  that  in  every  other 
country  it  was  the  pharmacist  who  was  responsible  for  the 
production  of  the  national  Pharmacopoeia.  Some  day  he 
might  in  this  country  get  recognition  in  a  back-door  sort 
of  way. 

Mr.  Campkin  characterised  the  report  as  a  very  useful 
one. 

Mr.  R.  L.  Gifford  said  that  when  he  read  paragraph  six 
of  the  report  relating  to  the  exhibition  of  the  certificate  of 
qualification  he  felt  hot  with  indignation  and  resentment. 

[The  paragraph  referred  to  was  as  follows:  "Although 
many  of  our  members  may  regret  that  this  limitation  is 
outside  the  sphere  of  practical  politics  for  Great  Britain,  they 
must  not  forget  that  the  beneficent  intervention  of  Govern- 
ment carries  with  it  responsibilities  and  inconveniences  to 
which  they  might  not  care  to  submit.  Thus  we  think  that 
pharmacists  in  this  country  who  express  so  much  indignation 
when  they  are  asked  by  the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  entirely 
in  their  own  interests  and  for  tneir  own  protection,  to  exhibit  a 
certificate  of  qualification  in  their  pharmacies,  would  hardly 
care  to  submit  to,  among  other  things,  the  visits  of  a  Govern- 
I  ment  inspector  with  power  to  inspect  their  stock  to  see  that 


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it  was  maintained  in  accordance  with  an  official  schedule, 
and  with  power  to  reject  anything  which  he  considered  unfit 
'for  use."! 

The  fir6t  sentence  of  this  was  perfect  and  complete,  direct 
and  final.  The  second  was  supposed  to  be  explanatory,  but, 
in  his  view,  it  was  altogether  unnecessary.  It  was 
.gratuitous,  and  contained  innuendo  and  reflection  that  ought 
not  to  have  been  used.  "  It  seems  to  me,  and  Mr.  White 
•confirms  my  view,"  Mr.  Gifford  continued,  "that  the 
attitude  of  mind  of  some  of  the  members  of  this  Council  is 
not  so  sympathetic  as  I  feel  it  ought  to  be  towards  the 
struggling  members  of  my  profession  and  trade.  I  know 
the  retail  man  from  top  to  bottom,  and  I  know  that  he  is  not 
as  bad  as  is  frequently  made  out  at  this  Council-table.  I 
know  that  he  is  worthy,  deserving,  but  that  he  is  unjustly 
"treated." 

The  President  :  I  will  not  allow  you  to  say  that.  We 
•cannot  allow  that  to  go  on.    You  are  going  too  far.  " 

Mr.  Gifford  :  I  say  that  he  is  unjustly  treated  by  the 
laws  of  this  country. 

The  President  :  Quite  so.  If  you  want  to  say  that,  do  so ; 
Taut  do  not  speak  as  you  do  of  members  of  the  Council. 

Mr.  Gifford  :  That  he  is  as  good  as  he  is,  is  to  my  mind 
surprising.  That  members  of  this  Council  should  go  out 
of  their  way  to  cast  such  a  reflection  upon  him,  and  not  to 
endeavour  to  look  at  his  struggling  experiences  with  more 
sympathy,  is  to  me  very  lamentable  indeed.  I  should  not 
have  drawn  attention  to  this,  but  it  seems  to  me  a  perfect 
illustration  of  what  I,  at  any  rate,  think  I  have  found  of  the 
attitude  of  mind  of  members  of  this  Council  to  the  great 
mass  of  chemists  in  this  country.  Mr.  White's  comments 
to-day  confirm  me  in  that. 

Mr.  Eymer  Young  remarked  that  to  say  that  those  who 
neglected  to  put  up  a  certificate  showing  that  they  were 
members  of  the  Society  in  a  conspicuous  position  were 
poor,  downtrodden  worms  for  whom  the  Society  had  no 
■consideration  was  assuming  too  much.  "  My  experience  is 
io  the  contrary,"  he  went  on  to  say.  "  I  can  speak  of  three 
■of  the  biggest  chemists  in  Lancashire  who  refuse  to  do  so, 
because  they  say  it  is  tomfoolery  and  nonsense.  They  are 
not  the  downtrodden  worms  that  Mr.  Gifford  tries  to  make 
them  appear.  I  speak  from  facts,  and  I  know  what  I  am 
talking  about.  There  are  people  who  from  sheer  neglect, 
as  there  are  others  who  cannot  afford  a  shilling  for  the 
certificate,  do  not  get  it.  At  the  same  time,  many  a 
chemist  who  sells  cigars  and  cigarettes  does  not  kick 
against  the  Government  because  he  has  to  paint  his 
name  over  his  door  to  indicate  that  he  is  licensed  to  sell 
tobacco,  cigars,  and  cigarettes,  and  has  to  pay  for  it  annu- 
ally, and  yet  we  do  not  hear  any  story  about  the  cruelty  he 
suffers  such  as  is  directed  against  us."  Proceeding,  Mr. 
Young  characterised  it  as  extraordinary  and  anomalous 
that  the  only  people  in  this  country  who  were  really  compe- 
tent to  compile  the  Pharmacopoeia  were  practically  outcasts 
in  the  preparation  of  the  work  and  were  prevented  exer- 
cising their  knowledge  in  the  matter.  Surely  the  time  had 
come  when  the  eyes  of  the  authorities  should  be  opened. 
They  should  be  very  chary  of  endangering  or  jeopardising 
the  privileges  they  had  of  making  their  own  rules  and 
regulations,  and  in  no  way  should  they  give  the  community 
cause  for  believing  that  the  affairs  of  the  Society  were  not 
well  conducted. 

Mr.  Cuff  remarked  that  what  the  report  contained  was 
intended  to  have  the  effect  of  helping  the  chemists  of  the 
country  to  see  how  they  could  help  themselves. 

Mr.  White  said  Mr.  Gifford's  point  seemed  to  be  that 
there  were  members  of  the  Society  who  did  not  get  the 
certificate  to  begin  with.  (Mr.  Gifford:  "Very  few.") 
There  was  a  large  proportion  of  others  who  refused  to 
get  it  and  objected  to  the  proceeding. 

Mr.  Gifford  :  No. 

The  Chairman  :  Order,  order ! 

The  Registrar  :  That  is  quite  true. 

Mr.  White  said  he  mentioned  the  fact  stated  in  the  report 
because  he  thought  he  was  justified  in  doing  so,  and  if 
Mr.  Gifford  could  see  any  offence  in  the  remark  he  was 
willing  there  and  then  to  say  that  no  offence  was  intended. 
When  at  the  Brussels  Congress  he  was  struck  with  the  fact 
that  the  Continental  pharmacists  were  afflicted  with  the  same 
professional  and  trade  troubles  as  pharmacists  at  home. 

The  President  proposed  a  vote  of  thanks  to  Mr.  White 


and  Mr.  Peck  for  attending  the  Congress  at  Brussels 
and  also  for  their  report. 

Mr.  Cross  seconded  the  proposition,  and  Mr.  Gifford 
expressed  his  desire  to  associate  himself  with  it. 

Mr.  White  formally  acknowledged  the  compliment. 

Welsh  as  a  Modern  Language. 

Mr.  Hagon  remarked  that  it  would  be  within  the  recol- 
lection of  members  of  the  Council  that  it  was  agreed  to 
accept  Welsh  in  lieu  of  a  modern  language.  That  decision 
had  given  great  satisfaction  to  the  Welsh  people.  The 
Welsh  national  sentiment  was  very  much  treasured,  and 
in  many  parts  of  Wales  the  teaching  of  the  language 
formed  one  of  the  items  in  the  education  of  the  child. 
He  had  received  letters  from  chemists  in  Wales  asking 
him  to  request  the  Council  to  state  publicly  that  it  now 
did  accept  Welsh  in  lieu  of  a  modern  language.  Mr. 
Young,  speaking  at  Swansea,  told  his  audience  that 
Welsh  had  been  so  accepted. 

The  President  :  Yes,  we  do  accept  the  Welsh  language 
in  lieu  of  a  modern  language,  but,  of  course,  you  must 
always  take  into  consideration  that  the  other  parts  of 
the  examination  are  what  we  require. 

Mr.  Young  :  I  am  at  a  loss  to  understand  why  Mr. 
Hagon  should  have  raised  the  point.  Why,  it  was  emphati- 
cally and  distinctly  stated  during  the  period  when  I 
adorned  that  chair — (laughter) — that  the  recognition  of 
Welsh  was  an  accomplished  fact.  I  thought  that,  at  least, 
was  one  useful  item  I  had  accomplished  during  my  term 
of  office.  (Laughter.) 

Mr.  Allen  remarked  that  it  was  an  actual  examination 
in  the  knowledge  of  Welsh  that  was  now  insisted  upon. 
The  mere  fact  that  one  was  able  to  talk  Welsh  did  not 
suffice. 

Miscellaneous. 

It  was  agreed  to  request  the  Secretary  to  send  to  Miss 
Dorothy  J.  Bartlett  the  sum  of  15/.  in  respect  of  the  Hewlett 
scholarship,  and  to  send  to  the  winners  the  first  moiety 
of  121.  10s.  each  of  the  Jacob  Bell  scholarship. 

On  the  suggestion  of  the  President,  it  was  decided 
to  grant  the  application  of  Miss  Elsie  Wardle,  Secretary 
of  the  Women  Pharmacists'  Association,  for  the  use  of 
the  lecture  theatre  on  the  occasion  of  the  delivery  of 
the  inaugural  address  in  connection  with  that  organisation. 

The  President  stated  that  he  had  received  the  portrait 
of  Professor  Reynolds  Green,  who  for  twenty  years  occupied 
the  chair  of  botany  in  the  Society's  school.  This  had 
been  duly  framed  and  would  be  hung  on  the  walls  of 
the  school. 

Correspondence. 

Letters  were  acknowledged  from  the  Chemists'  Associa- 
tions of  the  following  districts  enclosing  resolutions 
respecting  the  the  restrictions  upon  the  sale  of  Panopepton 
and  similar  preparations  :  Plymouth,  Bradford,  Leeds, 
Oldham,  and  the  Western  (of  London).  The  Registrar 
mentioned  that  the  resolutions  were  on  the  lines  of  the 
one  adopted  at  Torquay. 

This  was  all  the  public  business. 

OPENING  OF  THE  SESSION. 

The  opening  of  the  sixty-ninth  session  of  the  School  of 
Pharmacy  attracted  a  larger  assembly  of  representative 
pharmacists  than  has  been  seen  in  the  lecture  theatre  at 
17  Bloomsbury  Square,  London,  W.C.,  for  some  time,  the 
presentation  ceremony  of  his  portrait  to  Mr.  Walter  Hills 
accounting  for  the  augmented  attendance.  A  noticeable 
feature  was  the  large  number  of  ladies  present.  Among 
the  company  were 

Messrs.  F.  H.  Alcock,  C.  B.  Allen,  R.  R.  Bennett,  T.  Brewis, 
R.  Feaver  Clarke,  J  Harcombe  Cuff,  H.  Deane,  J.  W. 
Douglas,  H.  Finnemore,  G.  Bult  Francis,  F.  W.  Gamble,  D. 
Gilmour,  W.  F.  Gulliver,  E.  H.  Harrison,  J.  C.  Hewlett,  J. 
Stuart  Hills,  Walter  Hills,  A.  E.  Hobbs,  C.  Hodgkinson, 
A.  E.  Holden,  W.  L.  Howie,  J.  A.  Jennings,  H.  M.  Kluge, 
E.  W.  Lucas,  Peter  MacEwan,  T.  Maben,  J.  D.  Marshall, 
N.  H.  Martin,  E.  T.  Neathercoat,  R.  H.  Parker,  J.  C. 
Pentney,  E.  S.  Peck,  A.  J.  Phillips,  R.  A.  Robinson,  R.  A. 
Robinson,  junr.,  Charles  Umney,  John  C.  Umney,  Donald 
Watson,  E.  White,  R.  C.  Wren,  and  J.  R.  Young. 

Shortly  after  3  p.m.  the  President  (Mr.  J.  F.  Harring- 
ton), accompanied  by  Mr.  David  Howard,  the  Vice-Presi- 
dent, the  Treasurer,  members  of  Council,  Mr.  Charles 


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Umney,  and  Professors  of  the  School  of  Pharmacy, 
entered  the  lecture-room,  and  the  proceedings  began  by 
the  President  calling  upon  the  Dean  (Professor  A.  W. 
Crossley)  to  give  his 

Report  of  the  Past  Session. 
The  Dean  said  that  the  record  of  examination  results 
since  July  last,  though  satisfactory,  did  not  show  quits 
such  a  high  percentage  of  passes  as  usual.  During  the 
session  20  students  sat  for  the  Major  examination,  of 
wriom  15,  or  75  per  cent.,  passed.  At  the  Minor  exami- 
nation, 43  presented  themselves,  of  whom  34,  or  80  per 
cent.,  passed.  The  results  were  somewhat  disappointing, 
though,  of  course,  they  were  far  better  than  the  average 
passes  throughout  the  country.  The  prospects  for  the 
coming  session  were  exceedingly  bright,  the  school  being 
quite  full. 

Prize  Medals  and  Scholarships. 
Mr.  T.  Tickle  then  read  his  report  upon  the  competi- 
tion for  the  Pereira  medal  and  Council  medals.  The 
examination  had  been  conducted  by  Professor  Phillips, 
Mr.  Wright,  and  himself.  The  competitors,  although  the 
entries  were  smaller  than 
usual,  were  as  full  of  en- 
thusiasm as  ever,  and  the 
standard  ruled  exceedingly 
high.  Some  excellent  papers 
had  been  contributed,  espe- 
cially in  chemistry.  Two  of 
the  competitors  had  been 
deemed  deserving  of  the 
awards  at  the  disposal  of  the 
Council.  The  intimation 
that  the  competitor  last  in 
the  list  had  used  the  pseudo- 
nym "Nil  Desperandum 
called  forth  much  merri- 
ment. 

The  President,  in  pre- 
senting Mr.  Walter  Ryley 
Pratt  with  the  Pereira 
Medal,  and  books  to  the 
value  of  five  guineas,  said 
he  had  obtained  the  highest 
honour  that  it  was  possible 
for  a  student  to  attain 
during  the  year  in  the 
School  of  Pharmacy.  He 
was  a  most  distinguished 
student  and  they  were  all 
proud  of  him.  As  they  had 
heard  from  the  Dean,  they 
so  highly  appreciated  his 
high  qualities  that  he  had 
been  appointed  a  demon- 
strator in  the  School. 

The  Pharmaceutical 
Society  medal  in  silver 
was ,  then  presented  to  Mr. 
Howard    Vincent  Potter, 

whom    the    President    described    as    one  of 
students. 

Mr.  E.  S.  Peck  next  reported  upon  the  competitions  for 
the  Jacob  Bell  and  the  Manchester  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation Scholarships.  Fifteen  candidates  presented  them- 
selves for  the  Bell  Scholarship,  of  whom  four  obtained  the 
minimum  standard  of  marks,  which  was  two-thirds  of  the 
maximum,  and  the  difference  between  them  was  only  10  per 
cent.  Mr.  James  Small,  of  Brechin,  obtained  80  per  cent, 
of  the  total  marks,  and  Mr.  H.  A.  Phillips,  Wolverhamp- 
ton, closely  followed  with  76  per  cent.  There  were  three 
candidates  for  the  Manchester  Scholarship,  and  one  of 
them,  Mr.  Harris  Levi,  Manchester,  obtained  the  requisite 
number  of  marks.  The  good  work  done  by  the  compe- 
titors could  not  fail  to  have  a  very  important  influence  on 
their  careers  later  in  life.  (Applause.) 

The  President  then  called  forward  Mr.  James  Small 
and  Mr.  H.  A.  Phillips  and  presented  them  with  the  books 
which  go  with  the  Bell  Scholarships.  He  also  mentioned 
that  Mr.  Charles  Gilling  had  been  appointed  the  Salter 
Research  Scholar. 


Letters  of  Apology  for  Absence. 

The  President  said  that  before  calling  upon  Mr.  Davidl 
floward  to  deliver  his  inaugural  address  he  desired  to> 
inform  them  that  many  friends  had  written  expressing, 
regret  that  they  could  not  be  with  them  on  that  occasion. 
Amongst  them  were  Dr.  John  Attfield,  Professor  Bayley 
Balfour,  Sir  Thomas  Barclay,  Professor  Bower,  Professor 
Brown,  Sir  Lauder  Brunton,  Dr.  Buchanan,  Dr.  Dobbin, 
Mr.  A.  E.  Ekins,  Mr.  Barrett,  Mr.  William  Giles,  Mr. 
J.  P.  Gilmour,  Mr.  C.  A.  Hill,  Miss  Elsie  Hooper,  Mr.  F. 
Harwood  Lescher,  Mr.  George  Lunan,  Sir  Donald  Mac- 
Alister,  Professor  Dixon,  Sir  William  Ramsay,  Mr. 
Ransom,  Sir  Henry  Roscoe,  Mr.  David  Storrar,  Sir 
Edward  Thorpe,  Sir  William  A.  Tilden,  and  Dr.  F.  B. 
Power.  The  President  then  introduced  Mr.  David' 
Howard  to  deliver 

The  Inaugural  Address. 

Mr.  Howard  said  :  Ladies  and  Gentlemen, — Perhaps  it 
may  seem  somewhat  presumptuous  that  I,  not  a  pharmacist, 
should  address  the  School  of  Pharmacy.    But  I  can  at  any 

rate  claim  an  experience  of 
over  half  a  century  in  the- 
manufacture  of  pharma- 
ceutical chemicals,  and, 
what  is  not  less  to  the  point,, 
of  technical  education  in 
general.  Moreover,  my 
grandfather  was  a  phar- 
macist before  he  was  a  che- 
mist, and  the  memory  of 
nearly  a  century  and  a 
quarter  ago  remains  very 
fresh  in  the  minds  of  his 
descendants,  from  the  in- 
valuable instruction  he  got 
in  those  old  days.  I  always- 
regard  that  old  pharmacistr 
my  grandfather,  in  silence. 
Then  my  father  and  my 
uncle  took  the  keenest  in- 
terest in  the  foundation  of 
the  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
I  need  not  venture  to  say 
that  I  remember  it- -of 
course,  I  was  young  at  the- 
time,  for  I  was  only  two 
years  old.  Now,  in  these- 
days  of  mutability  and  pro- 
gress— not  always  in  the- 
same  or  in  the  right  direc- 
tion— (laughter) — it  is  well! 
to  remember  that  nothing 
new  is  stable  unless  it  has:- 
its  roots  in  the  past,  and 
that  it  is  no  small  matter 
that  the  School  of  Phar- 
macy has  so  long  and  SO' 
good  a  tradition  and  has 
so  well  utilised  its  experience.  Now,  just  as  the  phar- 
macist led  the  way  in  chemistry — because  we  must  all  re- 
member that  all  the  great  chemists  of  the  eighteenth  century 
(I  think  I  am  right  in  saying  all)  were  pharmacists — 
pharmacy  was  the  school  of  chemistry,  and  pharmacists  led 
the  way  so  effectually  that  you  appropriated  the  very  name 
of  chemistry,  and  the  title  of  chemist  legally  belongs  to  you. 
What  pains  and  penalties  I  should  risk  if  I  called  myself 
a  chemist  I  do  not  know.  (Laughter.)  Please  remember 
that  there  is  a  certain  body  over  the  way  which  I  know 
pretty  well.  It  is  not  allowed  to  call  itself  an  Institute 
of.  Chemists,  and  must  only  call  itself  an  Institute  of 
Chemistry.  (Laughter.)  You  know,  it  is  a  very  curious 
thing  how  words  sometimes  get  wrong.  By  analogy  you- 
ought  to  be  called  apothecaries,  but  then  the  general  prac- 
titioner has  stolen  that.  (Laughter.)  You  deserve  the- 
name  chemist,  because  of  the  long  association  between 
chemistry  and  pharmacy,  more  than  the  name  apothecary. 
But  still  your  position  has  been  very  inconvenient,  and' 
much  perplexes  our  unfortunate  foreign  friends,  who  cannot 
imagine  an  apothecary  who  is  not  a  pharmacist,  and  I  have- 


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known  general  practitioners  who  were  not.  (Laughter.) 
Now,  not  only  has  pharmacy  led  the  way  in  chemistry,  but 
it  has  also  led  the  way  in  the  teaching  of  applied  science. 
When  this  school  was  staited  there  were  schools  of 
chemistry,  but  for  long  years  afterwards,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  the  Royal  School  of  Mines,  the  chemical  student 
was  allowed  to  learn  theory,  but  was  allowed  to  work  out 
his  own  practice — if  he  could.  When  I  was  a  student  in 
the  early  'sixties,  it  was  still  doubtful  if  the  scientific  man 
did  not  lose  caste  if  he  made  a  profit  out  of  his  science.  It 
is  important  now  to  remember  that  Dr.  Hofmann  was  ex- 
tremely unfortunate  on  that  ground.  That  was  why  we  lost 
him  to  Berlin.  It  was  not  dignified  to  put  Pegasus  to  the 
plough.  (Laughter.)  It  is  well  to  look  back  and  see  the 
principles  on  which  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  founded 
its  school. 

Science  and  Practice. 
How  can  we  combine  practical  knowledge  and  pure 
science  ?  The  question  is  not  so  easy  as  it  looks,  and  a  good 
deal  of  so-called  technical  education  is  a  very  poor  answer 
indeed.  In  fact,  I  confess  that  I  prefer  a  workman  who 
has  not  been  technically  educated — (laughter) — when  we 
can  do  it  better  than  some  of  the  schools.  (Renewed 
laughter.)  It  seems  to  me  that  the  old  rules  for  pharmacy 
are  the  true  answer.  Apprenticeship  has,  in  most  trades, 
died  out,  to  the  great  detriment  of  those  trades.  (Hear, 
hear.)  I  hope  such  will  not  be  the  case  in  pharmacy.  If 
trades  cannot  afford  to  lose  it,  professions  can  do  so  even 
less.  A  school  of  law  cannot  teach  the  practice  of  law  half 
as  well  as  practice  can,  and  what  would  the  physician  be 
who  had  never  walked  the  hospital?  What  would  be  the 
chances  of  an  army  under  a  general  who  knew  only  the 
parade-ground  and  Sandhurst  ?  The  real  apprenticeship 
is  a  far  better  thing  than  the  substitutes  which  are 
proposed,  and  let  no  one  grumble  if  it  means  drudgery. 
(Applause.)  I  know  that  is  an  objection,  and  that  a  short 
and  ready  cut  to  success  is  preferable.  I  am  an  old  man, 
and  when  you  are  as  old  as  I  am  you  will  then  find  out  that 
there  is  no  short  and  ready  cut  to  success,  but  that  there 
are  many  short  and  ready  cuts  in  other  directions. 
(Laughter  and  applause.)  How  much  of  the  success  of  the 
most  successful  man — whoever  he  may  be — springs  from 
drudgery,  and  how  much  of  his  success  depends  on  his 
having  been  trained  not  to  shrink  from  drudgery ! 
Drudgery  is  the  first  condition  to  success.  You  think  the 
life  of  the  Lord  Chancellor  is  a  very  attractive  one — with 
his  12.000Z.  a  year.  (Laughter.)  I  cannot  tell  you  what 
work  he  dees,  but  I  do  know  from  what  I  have  seen  of 
other  people  that  the  drudgery  of  the  law  is  worse  than 
the  drudgery  of  pharmacy.  But  apprenticeship  is  not 
enough  alone.  That  was  a  great  and  a  bold  discovery  of 
the  Pharmaceutical  Society  in  old  days.  The  phar- 
macists who  formed  this  Society  knew  that  well,  and  so 
they  founded  this  School  to  give  the  higher  training  which 
develops  and  explains  the  knowledge  that  experience  only 
can  give.  You  may  say  that  I  am  exactly  reversing  the 
order  of  things,  but  it  is  the  knowledge  which  should 
explain  experience,  and  I  can  only  say  my  experience  is 
that  experience  comes  before  knowledge.  All  the  knowledge 
never  takes  root  in  one  mind.  Now  on  that  point  there  comes 
the  question  whether  apprenticeship  should  come  before 
the  school  or  the  school  before  the  practice.  Perhaps  I  am 
too  prejudiced  by  my  own  experience  to  be  a  good  judge. 
(Laughter.)  But  I  do  know  the  advantage  of  having  been 
through  our  own  works  before  I  went  to  college.  And 
when  I  went  into  the  works  I  had  only  such  knowledge  of 
chemistry  as  I  learned  at  school.  One  could  teach  oneself 
chemistry  at  school  even  then,  although  there  was  no 
modern  science  schools.  Anyone  who  wanted  to  learn 
could  learn  chemistry  or  anything  else.  Then  I  went  to 
the  old  College  of  Chemistry,  and  only  those  who  have 
been  under  Dr.  Hofmann  know  what  a  marvellous  teacher 
he  was — (applause) — and  how  much  all  that  is  best  in  the 
teaching  of  chemistry  in  England  we  owe  to  his  example 
and  to  his  instruction.  When  I  went  there  I  knew  what 
I  wanted  to  know,  and  I  knew  the  meaning  of  what  I  was 
studying  and  what  it  meant  on  a  large  scale.  Everything 
was  clear  and  plain.  But  then  we  come  to  the  higher 
training  we  receive.  Now  we  cannot  learn  everything  at 
once.    We  cannot  learn  all  of  one  science.    I  have  not  the 


faintest  doubt  that  all  of  you  feel  as  if  you  knew  more 
chemistry  than  I  do — (applause) — but  there  was  the  little 
boy  of  thirteen  when  he  first  began,  and  here  you  have  the 
old  man  of  seventy-one.  And  right  along  I  have  learned 
one  lesson,  and  that  is  how  very  little  I  know.  I  say  you 
cannot  learn  everything ;  you  cannot  learn  even  one  branch 
of  chemistry  absolutely.  And  if  this  was  impossible  when 
I  was  a  student,  how  much  more  impossible  it  is  now. 
What,  therefore,  should  we  learn  ?  The  practical  man — 
he  is  a  terrible  person — (laughter) — and  there  are  plenty 
of  them,  would  say,  "Learn  what  is  useful."  I  fully 
agree  ;  but  if  what  is  useful  means  something  that  can  be 
immediately  turned  into  money,  it  is 

A  Grievous  Delusion. 
If  you  only  learn  the  minimum  of  scientific  knowledge 
required  to  pass  examinations  and  to  start  you  in  practical 
work,  how  are  you  to  manage  when,  in  the  course  of  time, 
the  requirements  of  life  change,  and  with  it  the  require- 
ments of  knowledge.  Now,  if  I  have  an  enemy — and  I 
hope  I  have  not— and  if  I  could  wish  him  the  most  awful 
thing  in  matters  temporal,  it  would  be  that  he  should  work 
on  exactly  that  basis — in  the  application  of  knowledge 
that  was  not  successful.  What  is  wanted  is  quite  different 
from  that.  It  is  to  learn  the  scientific  grounds  of  our 
practical  knowledge  and  the  scientific  method  of  study, 
and  to  learn  and  to  think  science.  You  cannot  learn  that 
of  which  you  do  not  know  the  existence,  because  it  does 
not  exist  yet.  When  I  was  a  student  the  application  of 
electricity  to  the  arts  was  a  thin^  confined  to  electro- 
plating. How  could  I  then  have  learned  the  science  of 
electro-chemistry?  There  was  no  such  thing,  and  the 
examples  I  might  give  are  almost  infinite.  ,Now  what  is 
wanted  is  quite  different  from  the  practical  man's  useful 
knowledge.  It  is,  perhaps,  easy  to  use  words,  but  it  is 
rather  difficult  to  define  them.  So  when  I  speak  of  think- 
ing science  I  know  what  I  mean,  because,  except  those  who 
have  been  trained  in  science,  their  utterances  on  scientific 
subjects  are  simply  too  wonderful  for  words.  For  that 
purpose,  beyond  the  absolute  elements  of  science,  it  does 
not  much  matter  what  we  learn,  if  only  we  learn  it 
thoroughly.  In  twenty  years  we  shall  most  likely  want 
something  different,  and  therefore  we  shall  want  all  the 
more  power  of  grasping  new  ideas.  Thoroughness  of 
study  is  the  main  requisite,  and  the  man  who  has  really 
grasped  one  subject  can  take  up  another ;  but  if  he  has  but 
half  learned  his  one  subject,  he  has  no  chance  with  a  new 
one.  In  after-life  one  has  to  know  about  endless  subjects. 
It  is  part  of  the  enjoyment  of  life  when  one  has  a  wide 
and  varied  semi-knowledge  of  all  subjects.  It  is  the  joy 
of  his  life  if  h©  keeps  his  mind  fresh  enough  to  enjoy 
new  discoveries  ;  it  is  a  burden  if  one  has  to  learn  enough 
to  apply  them.  But  unless  the  habit  has  been  acquired, 
knowledge— all  that  half  or  less  than  half  knowledge— is 
nothing  less  than  a  snare  and  a  delusion.  There  is  a 
very  trite  saying,  and  it  is  true  as  it  is  trite,  that  there  are 
only  three  things  to  learn.  One  is  to  learn  to  know  what 
one  knows,  one  is  to  know  what  one  does  not 
know,  and  the  other  is  to  know  ho.v  to  learn 
what  one  wants  to  know.  No  one  can  go  further  than 
that.  We  should  realise  the  first  condition,  and  I  advise 
students  to  learn  to  know  what  you  know  because  very 
few  people  do.  (Applause.)  As  time  goes  on  and  we 
begin  to  realise 

The  Impossibility  of  Universal  Knowledge, 
there  will  come  in  the  need  of  the  second  condition.  How 
many  people  know  the  exact  limitations  of  their  own 
knowledge  ?  Don't  get  into  the  witness-box  without  having 
ubtained  that  full  knowledge  which  is  essential  to  the  wit- 
ness whose  evidence  should  be  convincing.  If  you  only 
have  the  half  knowledge,  the  counsel  who  cross-examines 
will  sneer  at  vou.  That  does  not  hurt  you.  You  may 
think  you  know  more  than  he  does,  and  no  doubt  you  are 
correct;  but  he  can  turn  you  inside  out  all  the  same. 
(Laughter  and  applause.)  And  as  to  the  last— how  to 
know  what  we  want  to  know— the  only  chance  is  m  the 
thoroughness  of  our  grasp  of  elementary  training.  I  want 
to  make  that  quite  clear  to  all  your  minds.  What  has 
desultory,  rather  casual  reading  of  a  subject  to  do  with 
thoroughness?  How  can  a  child  learn  to  pick  something 
out  of  a  book  if  he  has  not  learned  to  read  very  accurately? 


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But  there  is  another  reason  for  acquiring  a  grasp  of  prac- 
tical scientific  thought  rather  than  mere  technical  prac- 
tice, and  that  is  the  uncertainties  of  our  future  needs. 
You  intend  to  practise  pharmacy,  but  I  again  urge  you 
do  not  know  what  the  pharmacy  of  the  future  will  be. 
You  know  how  much  pharmacy  has  changed  since  I  was 
a  boy,  and  it  is  a  sound  grasp  of  the  subject  which  you 
do  know  which  will  enable  you  to  grasp  new  ideas.  You 
do  not  know  what  openings  there  may  be — either  allied  to 
pharmacy  or,  it  may  be,  in  other  branches  of  chemistry — 
and  the  possibility  of  seeing  such  depends  entirely  on 
that  thoroughness  of  training  and  power  of  grasping  new 
ideas  of  which  I  have  spoken.  A  sound  basis  of  educa- 
tion is  a  foundation  on  which  you  can  build  whatever 
you  will,  and,  moreover,  it  is  an  assurance  against 
the  future  of  the  highest  value.  No  one  knows  exactly 
what  one  wants,  and  nobody  knows  precisely  even  whether 
they  will  confine  themselves  to  their  own  profession  or 
whether  they  will  have  to  take  up  new  lines,  new  studies, 
new  matters  of  business  either  apart  from  or  in  alliance 
with  their  own  prof  ession.  The  man  who  has  thoroughly 
grasped  his  own  work  is  the  only  one  who  has  a.  chance  of 
doing  any  good  outside.  But  there  is  another  duty  of  which 
I  hope  you  will  all  take  some  share — that  of 

Public  Work. 

in  its  endless  branches,  whether  municipal  or  judicial  or 
political — political  in  the  true  sense  of  the  term,  I  mean ; 
not  in  the  politics  of  elections.  Do  not  have  too  much  to 
do  with  those  politics.  What  I  allude  to  is  the  care  of  the 
body  politic,  the  politics  of  the  city,  the  duties  of  good 
citizenship.  It  is  important  that  all  men  should  take  then- 
part  in  these  things.  In  such  matters  do  not  seek 
eminence,  but  seek  to  work  for  others.  If  rightly  done,  public 
work  is  hard  and  thankless,  but  it  is  a  duty  almost  the 
highest  of  all.  Now  in  all  public  work  there  is  special 
need  of  the  practically  trained  intelligence.  What  a  mess 
the  theoretical  enthusiast  makes  of  it,  whether  it  may  be  in 
widening  a  road  or  in  carrying  out  some  similar  contract, 
the  theoretical  enthusiast,  no  matter  what  it  is,  always 
makes  a  me6s  of  it.  (Laughter.)  The  need  in  all  such 
work  of  scientific  knowledge  is  as  universal  as  its  posses- 
sion is  rare.  It  is  wonderful  how  little  idea  of  scientific 
evidence  the  practical  man  has  alike  in  judicial  and  other 
matters.  (Laughter.)  Now  it  is  possible  that  some  of  you 
are  inclined  to  say  to  yourselves,  "  Why  should  I  study  the 
art  of  manufacturing  medicines  when  I  can  buy  them  ready- 
made?"  If  you  do  so,  and  I  am  to  say  that  with  the 
enormous  scale  on  which  these  things  have  to  be  made  it 
becomes  a  necessity,  it  is  all  the  more  necessary  that  you 
should  know  how  they  are  made.  A  ton  of  quinine  is  not 
easy  to  realise,  but  I  was  over  at  Amsterdam  a  week  ago, 
when  I  saw  55  tons  of  quinine  sold.  It  seems  as  easy  to 
make  a  ton  of  quinine  as  an  ounce,  if  you  only  know  how. 
(Laughter.)  It  is  absolutely  necessary  that  you  should 
know  how  they  are  made,  and  know  the  possibility  of  their 
manufacture,  or  you  will  be  quite  incapable  of  judging 
them.  The  old-fashioned  pharmacist,  who  made  all  he 
used,  must  have  been  a  singular  fool  if  he  knew  nothing 
about  chemistry.  Everyone  who  handles  a  product  ought 
to  possess  the  knowledge  of  its  mysterious  points  that  the 
old-fa6hioned  pharmacist  did.  The  civil  engineer  does  not 
make  his  girders  or  set  his  stonework,  but  he  is  no  engineer 
if  he  does  not  know  every  detail  of  the  work  he  directs. 
Now  in  this  connection  I  venture  to  point  out 

A  Singular  Anomaly. 
We  have  all  to  work  by  a  book  with  a  red  cover 
which  is  known  as  the  British  Pharmacopoeia.  Some  of 
us  think  it  is  far  from  perfect.  In  all  other  civilised 
countries  the  practical  pharmacist  has  an  official  connection 
with  the  compilation  of  the  Pharmacopoeia.  (Applause.) 
But  here  in  this  country  it  is  entirely  in  the  hands  of  medical 
men  who  may  or  may  not  take  advice.  I  greatly  fear  that 
the  real  knowledge  of  pharmacology  is  not  increasing  in 
that  way  among  them.  The  other  day  at  one  of  the  schools 
of  medicine  a  great  expert  explained  the  extreme  difficulty 
of  learning  four  different  sciences,  of  which  chemistry  and 
pharmacy  form  only  one,  in  such  a  short  time.  And  it  was 
pointed  out  that  it  was  expected  that  a  medical  man  should 
in  6uch  a  short  time  be  competent  to  dispense  medicines. 


That  expert  said  that  such  a  thing  was  impossible. 
(Applause.)    The  modern  medical  student  cannot  grasp  it. 
all.  It  is  only  right,  therefore,  that  those  who  do  know  what- 
pharmacy  means,  who  do  know  the  needs  and  possibility  of 
pharmacy,  should  have  a  voice  in  the  compilation  of  the 
Pharmacopoeia  rather  than  those  who  are  too  busy  to  under- 
stand all  the  problems  involved  in  its  production.  This, 
I  may  say,  is  much  more  professional  politics  than  most  of 
us  think.    It  is  not  only  that  the  Pharmacopoeia  has  to. 
perform  its  true  functions,  but  it  is  often  taken  as  a  law- 
book and  made  a  standard  on  legal  matters.    It  is  one  of 
the  anomalies  of  which  6ome  of  you  have  experience  that 
you  have  to  be  tried  by  the  standards  of  a  book  which  uses 
words  so  indefinite  that  I  have  not  the  faintest  conception  of 
what  they  mean.  (Applause.)  Itisthemost  bewilderingbook. 
that  I  ever  knew  of.    Conversely  the  pharmacist  has  to 
know  a  great  deal  of  special  law;  to  understand  all  the 
responsibility  of  handling  poisons,  and  to  make  no  mistake 
as  to  scheduled  poisons.    He  will  be  blamed  anyway,  so 
all  he  can  do  is  to  carry  out  the  letter  and  the  spirit  of  the 
law.    It  is  wonderful  how  little  outsiders  know  of  the 
law.    An  eminent  barrister  is  reported  in  the  papers  to 
have  said  that  morphia  is  not  a  poison.    Others  in  judicial, 
positions  blame  the  pharmacist  because  a  man  buys  spirit 
of  salt  from  a  grocer  with  suicidal  intent.  (Laughter.) 
The  Pharmacist  and  Prescribing. 
Again  and  again  fierce  condemnations  are  launched  against 
the  pharmacist  who  fulfils  all  that  is  said  about  the  danger 
of  poisons.      People  who-  are  not  chemists  should  not 
meddle  with  these  things  at  all.    Now  I  have  spoken  of 
the  spirit  of  the  law,  and  I  think  the  responsibility  of  the 
chemist  should  not  end  with  the  schedules.    There  is  far 
more  danger  in  ignorant  individuals  prescribing  for  them- 
selves than  in  the  pharmacist  prescribing  for  them,  and  I 
am  sure  there  is  a  need  of  warning  to  those  who  indulge- 
in  sugar-coated  tablets  of  patent  drugs  with  no  idea  of  their 
effect.    A  has  a  headache,  and  a  doctor  has  prescribed 
phenacetin.    And  so  B,  C,  and  D  having  headaches,  the? 
cause  of  which  they  know  nothing,  take  increasing  quan- 
tities of  the  like.    Another  has  heard  of  veronal  and  takes 
it  largely.    I  know  of  a  ease  where  a  prescription  contain- 
ing a  strong  dose  of  digitalis  was  given  to  an  old  man,  and 
copied  for  administration  as  a  tonic  for  his  children  and 
grandchildren.    (Laughter.)    In  the  old  days  it  was  dif- 
ferent.   When  I  was  young  the  first  requisite  of  physic 
was  that  it  was  nasty,  and  the  patient  thought  twice  before 
taking  it.    Nowadays  the  fatal  facility  of  the  tasteless 
tablet  has  changed   all  that,    and  there  is   far  greater 
need  of  a  word  of  caution.    There  is  a  case  on  record  of  a 
child  who  found  the  outside  of  Easton-syrup  tablets  so- 
nice  that  it  swallowed  several,  with  the  natural  result. 
Many  "  grown-ups  "  are  not  much  wiser,  though  the  result 
may  not  be  so  sudden.    This  dangerous  similarity  is  air 
added  reason  that  patent  medicines  should  only  be  handled 
by  those  who  understand  them.    It  is  only  those  who  have- 
to  work  with  workmen,  many  of  them  of  long  experience, 
who  can  realise  the  frightful  danger  a  man  runs  who  has 
not  a  scientific  grasp  of  what  he  is  doing  when  he  comes  to- 
handle  poison.    Some  of  these  men  are  careless  about  the 
most  dangerous  poisons.    An  ignorant  person  knows  that 
certain  things  are  poisons,  but  he  has  really  no  idea  of  what 
that  means.    I  have  known  a  case  of  a  man  at  Croydon 
who  was  employed  in  making  oxide  of  mercury.  He 
was  very  fond  of  chewing  tobacco,  and  he  used  to  take  a 
pinch  from  his  pocket  and  put  it  in  his  mouth  without  ever 
thinking  of  dusting  his  fingers  while  he  was  handling  the 
oxide  of  mercury.    He  suffered  the  danger,  but  sometimes 
it  is  not  the  person  who  makes  the  mistake,  but  the  un- 
fortunate outsider,  who  suffers  ;  and  I  say  that  the  very 
fact  of  the  dangerous  similarity  of  some  medicines  is  a 
reason  why  more  knowledge  and,  what  is  more  important, 
more  accurate  ideas  of  elementary  physiology  and  many 
other  subjects  which  you  have  to  work  up  sooner  or  later, 
is  required.    I  am  not  without  hope  that  we  may  see  a 
reaction  in  the  administration  of  medicine.    Ease  of  swal- 
lowing is  not  everything.    How  far  may  a  well-coated  dose 
go  before  it  dissolves,  and  what  is  the  danger  of  adherence 
to  some  distant  part  of  the  mucous  membrane  and  sub- 
mitting it  to  the  action  of  a  concentrated  solution  of  a 
potent  drug.    You  cannot  even  follow  the  course  of  such 


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.administration  by  the  x  rays  except  in  the  case  of  bismuth, 
.as  is  occasionally  done.  Of  course  if  sufficiently  well  made 
tthe  pill  or  tablet  may  pass  undenoted  and  triumphantly 
"through  all  its  dangers,  but  that  is  hardly  the  intention  of 
rthe  prescriber. 

Now,  perhaps  you  will  say  that  I  have  told  you  nothing 
inew,  and  that  you  knew  it  already.  It  is  perfectly  true, 
•but  is  there  no  need  to  insist  again  and  again  on  the  old 
••truths,  and  not  only  to  know  them  but  to  live  up  to  them? 
In  these  days,  when  there  is  so  grave  a  tendency  to  seek 


Portrait  to  Mr.  Walter  Hills. 

Mr.  Harrington  then,  as  President  of  the  Society,  pre- 
sented to  Mr.  Walter  Hills  his  portrait  painted  in  oils  by 
Mr.  Arthur  T.  Nowill.  In  so  doing  Mr.  Harrington  said 
that  the  idea  of  the  portrait  originated  with  Mr.  C.  B. 
Allen,  an  old  friend  of  Mr.  Hills,  and  the  purpose  was  to 
commemorate  the  services  which  Mr.  Hills  had  rendered 
to  the  Pharmaceutical  Society.  He  specially  mentioned 
Mr.  Hills's  Minority  Report  as  a  member  of  the  Depart- 
mental Committee  on  Poisons,  and  concluded  by  unveiling 


ior  ease  and  pleasure,  we  need  more  than  ever  to  remind  the  portrait  and  asking  Mr.  Hills  to  accept  a  quarto  port 
ourselves  of  the  nead  for  strenuous,  unfailing  application  to 
'the  work  before  us,  of  laying  and  maintaining  a  sound  and 
wide  foundation  of  our  "knowledge,  of  absolute  thorough- 
mess  in  our  work,  and  ready  facility  to  work  on  new  lines, 
.and  above  all  on  that  wise  temperance  of  thought  that  can 
weigh  rightly  the  merits  alike  of  the  new  and  of  the  old, 
•neither  running  after  and  believing  every  novelty  because 
it  is  new,  nor  refusing  it  for  the  same  reason,  and  in  like 
manner  learning  what  is  permanent  in  the  old  learning. 
'Truth  itself  does  not  change. 


folio  in  which  a  brief  address  was  illuminated  (this  re- 
ferring to  his  services  as  Councillor,  President,  and  Trea- 
surer of  the  Society  during  twenty-nine  years),  and  on 
which  the  names  of  the  subscribers  were  written. 

Mr.  Hills,  who  received  quite  an  ovation,  said  that 
when  he  looked  at  the  picture  he  would  always  reflect  that 
whatever  work  he  had  done  for  the. Pharmaceutical  Society 
had  not  been  of  a  thankless  nature.  For  nearly  thirty 
years  he  had  been  on  the  Council  of  the  Society,  and  a 

very  interesting  time  it  had 
been  to  him.  He  must  be 
pardoned  if  1  e  happened  to 
be  a  little'  egotistical  that 
day,  but  he  desired  to  say 
why  he  undertook  the  work 
which  it  had  teen  his  plea- 
sure for  many  years  to  dis- 
charge. He  hoped  that 
there  was  at  least  one  reason 
for  it,  and  that  was  the 
reason  given  by  the  great 
Lord  Bacon,  who  said  : 

"  I  hold  every  man  to  be  a 
debtor  to  his  profession  ;  from 
the  which  as  men,  of  course, 
do  seek  to  receive  counten- 
ance and  profit,  so  ought  they 
of  duty  to  endeavour  them- 
selves by  way  of  amends  to 
be  a  help  and  ornament  there- 
unto." 

It  was  his  sincere  hope  that 
this   influence    would  conj 
tinue  to  work  in  connection 
with  the  Society.  Speaking 
in  the  presence  of  a  large 
number    of    students,  he 
might  be  allowed  to  suggest 
the  motto  to  them,  and  that 
when  they  went  out  into  life 
they  would  not  forget  the 
Society,  but  would  try  in  a 
special  way  to  further  its 
interests.    In  his  early  days 
something  seemed  to  impel 
him  to  work  for  the  Society. 
Coming  to  London  in  1869, 
he  was  necessarily  associated 
with    a    house   which  was 
closely  connected  with  the  work  of  the  Society.    He  could 
not  go  into  the  old  place  in  Oxford  Street  without  feeling  a 
certain  pharmaceutical  atmosphere.   As  a  boy  he  only  once 
saw  Jacob  Bell,  but  he  was  struck  with  his  wonderful  ability 
and  his  enthusiastic  advocacy  of  the  interests  of  his  calling. 
His  association  with  other  prominent  members  of  the  Society 
made  him  feel  that  he  was  bound,  when  the  opportunity 
came,  to  do  what  he  could  for  the  Society's  benefit.  His 
feeling  then  was  "woe  is  me  if  I  preach  not  the  phar- 
maceutical   gospel."     Perhaps    no    department    of  the 
Society's  work  gave  him  more-- pleasure  than  that  connected 
with  the  School.    Concluding,  he  asked  the  members  of  the 
Society  to  allow  the  picture  to  be  hung  with  the  portraits 
in  the  Council  Chamber.    That,  he  said,  was  a  red-letter 

 day  in  hisjife,  and  he  acknowledged  with  thanks  not 

desired  was  that  the  young  men  should  take  their  place  and  !  only  the  generosity  they  had  extended  to  him  on  that 
"try  to  do  the  work  they  had  attempted  better  than  they  \  occasion,  but  the  invariable  kindness  to  himself  of  all 
had  done.    If  anyone  could  help  forward  the  Society  and     connected  with  the  Society.  (Applause.) 
assist  the  individual  students  at  its  school,  then  he  might        The  President  having  accepted  the  portrait,  the  com- 
aay,  Non  omnis  mortar.    (Applause.)  pany  adjourned  to  the  Examination  Hall  for  tea. 


The  expression  and  applica- 
tion of  the  truth  does,  and 
must  change,  and  we  shall 
find  that  new  truths,  if  they 
"bo  true,  have  their  roots  and 
■draw  their  life  from  the  past. 
.Jonah's  gourd  sprang  up  in  a 
night,  and  withered  away  in 
;a  night,  and  the  mere  novelty 
.most  times  shares  a  like  fate. 
•{Loud  applause.) 

Mr.  Charles  Umney,  in 
proposing  a  vote  of  thanks  to 
Mr.  Howard,  remarked  that 
"lie  was  a  student  about  the 
:same  time  as  that  gentleman 
in  the  early  'sixties.  He  felt 
;sure  that  when  they  sat  down 
and  pondered  over  what  he 
had  said  to  them  that  day 
•they  would  be  greatly  bene- 
fited. Mr.  Howard  had 
■spoken  on  the  importance  of 
•one  working  outside  one's 
"trade  for  the  benefit  of  the 
•community.  He  could  testify 
that  Mr.  Howard  had  done 
tso  very  amply.  He  had  had 
"the  pleasure  of  meeting  that 
•gentleman  on  'Change,  at  the 
'Chamber  of  Commerce,  and 
"he  could  say  that  there  was 
no  more  zealous  worker  either 
"in  the  City  or  in  the  East  of 
London  than  he. 

Mr.  R.  A.  Robtnson,  in 
■.seconding,  suggested  that 
Mr.  Howard  had  made  one 
"important  omission  from  his 

;address,  and  that  was  the  secret  of  never  growing  old. 
(Laughter.)  One  would  think  from  his  appearance  there 
that  he  was  scarcely  fifty-one  rather  than  seventy-one. 

'(Renewed  laughter.)  He  did  not  think  that  the  students 
would  easily  forget  what  Mr.  Howard  had  told  them — 

"that  success  in  pharmacy  commenced  with  drudgery,  and 

■could  only  be  secured  by  thoroughness  in  work.  (Ap- 

•plause.) 

The  audience  signified  their  approval  of  the  proposition 
%y  loud  applause,  it  being  generally  agreed  that  Mr. 
Howard's  address  had  been  a  stimulating,  intellectual 
'treat. 

Mr.  Howard,  in  reply,  said  he  had  been  simply  trying 
"to  act  the  part  of  the  old  man,  because  he  was  one,  by 
■endeavouring  to  encourage  the  young.    What  old  men 


Me.  Walter  Hills. 
(From  the  Presentation  Portrait. 


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Pharmaceutical  Society  of 
Ireland. 


ANNUAL  MEETING. 

THE  thirty-fifth  annual  meeting  of  the  members  was 
held  at  67  Lower  Mount  Street,  Dublin,  on  Monday 
evening,  October  3,  Mr.  John  Smith,  President,  in  the 
chair.  There  were  also  present  Dr.  J.  A.  Walsh,  Dr. 
J.  S.  Ashe,  Dr.  A.  J.  Barnes,  Messrs.  J.  Michie,  J.  Bur- 
nett, P.  N.  White,  W.  F.  Wells,  Wm.  N.  Allen,  F.  J. 
Fitzpatrick,  D.  L.  Kirkpatrick,  A.  Owen  Wells,  Arthur  J. 
Cahill,  M.  J.  Foley,  and  M.  J.  Caffrey.  The  minutes  of 
the  last  annual  meeting  were  read  by  the  Registrar, 
approved  of  by  the  meeting,  and  signed  by  the  President. 

Council  Election. 

The  President  read  the  report  of  the  secretaries  of  the 
ballot  for  the  election  of  seven  members  on  the  Council. 
There  were  188  voting-papers  returned,  of  which  one  was 
rejected  as  the  names  were  not  erased.  The  following 
was  the  result  of  the  ballot  : 

John  Smith,  170.  1    Charles  J.  B.  Dunlop,  145. 

Joseph  Henry  Bowden,  164.      James  Tate,  128. 

David  M.  Watson,  163.  Patrick  J.  Fielding,  63. 

Richard  Blair,  150  I    M.  John  Folev,  52 

Henry  V.  Goldon,  147.  !    Arthur  John  Cahill,  50. 

(Signed)  James  A.  Walsh ;  Thomas  Batt,  October  3,  1910. 

The  President  declared  Messrs.  Smith,  Bowden, 
Watson,  Blair,  Goldon,  Dunlop,  and  Tate  (the  retiring 
members  of  the  Council)  duly  elected. 

Presidential  Address. 
The  President  said  this  was  the  third  year  he  had  the 
honour  of  occupying  the  presidential  chair  and  of  address- 
ing them  at  their  annual  meeting.  It  was  also  the  thirty- 
fifth  annual  meeting  of  their  Society,  and  he  was  glad  to 
be  able  to  report  that  the  Society  was  in  a  vigorous  and 
healthy  condition.  The  progress  as  regards  membership 
during  those  years  had  been  perhaps  slow  and  not  in  keep- 
ing with  the  numbers  added  to  the  registers  yearly. 
Nevertheless,  with  the  funds  at  its  disposal,  the  Society 
had  done  good  work  in  maintaining  the  law  as  laid  down 
in  the  Pharmacy  and  Poisons  Acts  as  regards  the  sale  of 
poisons  and  compounding  of  prescriptions  throughout  the 
country.  In  reviewing  the  work  and  progress  of  the 
Society  for  the  past  year  there  was  nothing  that  he  need 
occupy  much  of  their  time  with ;  and  as  this  was  the  only 
opportunity  the  members  had  of  indicating  and  giving 
expression  to  their  views  as  regards  the  actions  of  their 
representatives  on  the  Council,  he  would,  by  being  brief, 
all  the  sooner  make  way  for  them.  Turning  to  the 
registers  for  the  year,  he  noted  that  they  had  a  total  of 
1,728  on  the  registers,  being  an  increase  of  44  : 

]9C9  1910     Increase  Decrease 


Pharmaceutical  Chemists... 

818 

851 

33 

Pharmaceutical  Assistants 

121 

126 

5 

Chemists  and  Druggists  ... 

191 

188 

3 

Registered  Chemists 

554 

563 

9 

1,684 

1,728 

47 

Less  decrease  .. 

3 

Net.  increaso 

44 

He  regretted  to  have  to  report  the  removal  by  death  of 
the  names  of  six  pharmaceutical  chemists,  three  chemists 
and  druggists,  and  three  registered  druggists.  As  regards 
membership,  there  was  an  increase  of  17  pharmaceutical 
chemists,  there  being  now  311  subscribers,  compared  with 
294  the  former  year,  but,  owing  to  two  associate  druggists 
having  dropped  out,  the  net  increase  was  only  15.  He 
ventured  to  appeal  again  to  licentiates  to  support  the 
Society  more  heartily  in  carrying  out  its  duties.  Know- 
ing as  he  did  the  large  amount  of  correspondence  which 
had  to  be  dealt  with  in  the  office  from  non-subscribers,  he 
made  no  apology  for  this  appeal,  but  would  simply  say 
that  if  correspondents  recognised  the  functions  of  the 
Society  at  all  they  should  also  recognise  its  claims,  and 
that  it  was  scarcely  fair  to  saddle  the  willing  horse  with 
all  the  burden.    In  view  of  the  numbers  of  non-subscribers 


now  in  business  in  the  larger  towns  it  was  worth  con- 
sidering if  the  time  had  not  arrived  for  trying  to  encourage 
a  greater  interest  in  the  Society  by  the  appointment  of  pro- 
vincial secretaries,  or  by  securing  representatives  for  the 
Council  from  districts  not  at  present  represented  and  who 
could  do  much  by  intercourse  with  the  licentiates  in  busi- 
ness in  their  respective  neighbourhoods  to  stimulate  that 
interest. 

examinations. 

The  members  entering  for  the  Preliminary  examinations, 
showed  a  slight  decrease,  107  having  entered  this  year,, 
compared  with  121  for  1909,  but  the  number  of  passes, 
was  42,  compared  with  40  the  previous  year.  There 
were  also  registered  33  on  certificates  from  other 
bodies.  During  the  year  two  candidates  passed  with 
honours,  namely,  Ian  Alexander  Clarke,  85^  per  cent., 
and  May  Wilson  Corry,  77f  per  cent.  The  Government. 
Visitor  (Sir  John  W.  Moore)  again  drew  attention  to. 
what  he  considered  a  grievance  under  which  the  candi- 
dates laboured,  in  that  the  subjects  of  arithmetic  and 
weights  and  measures  were  marked  as  separate  subjects- 
instead  of  being  combined  as  one  subject.  It  sometimes, 
happened  that  a  candidate  might  be  short  of  passing, 
marks  in  one  of  these  subjects,  while  passing  very  credit- 
ably in  the  other.  The  Visitor's  contention  was  a  reason- 
able one,  namely,  that,  judging  by  the  questions  set  in< 
weights  and  measures,  a  candidate  could  not  answer  the 
questions  without  a  knowledge  of  arithmetic,  and  that  if 
he  secured,  say,  a  fourth  the  number  of  marks  in  arith- 
metic, and  made  up  the  50  per  cent,  necessary  to  pass- 
by  doing  well  in  the  other  subject,  he  should  be  allowed 
through.  The  Council  had  expressed  their  willingness  to 
give  effect  to  his  suggestion,  and  the  matter  would  be  dealt, 
with  when  next  the  Privy  Council  was  approached  in  regard] 
to  any  new  regulation. 

For  the  Pharmaceutical  Licence  examination  108  candi- 
dates presented  themselves,  being  an  increase  of  two  over 
the  former  year.  Forty  candidates  passed,  being  an 
increase  of  seven.  The  following  candidates  passed  with 
honours  :  M.  J.  Caffrey,  W.  Wolfe  Bennett,  and  Roden 
Johnston,  jun.  The  'Council  regretted  that  no  medal 
could  be  awarded  for  this  year  because,  although  one» 
candidate  secured  the  requisite  grand  total  for  the  silver 
medal,  he  failed  to  obtain  the  requisite  percentage  in  one- 
subject.  Mr.  George  Brown,  one  of  the  Examiners  in 
Pharmacy,  having  completed  his  term  of  five  years,  retired, 
and  Dr.  W.  Vincent  Johnston  was  appointed  to  the- 
vacancy.  In  maintaining  the  standard  of  the  qualifying, 
examination  without  making  it  unduly  severe,  it  was  fa 
matter  for  regret  that  so  many  of  the  rejected  candi- 
dates failed  in  pharmacy.  Of  the  68  rejected  candi- 
dates, 54,  while  perhaps  failing  in  some  of  the  other- 
subjects  as  well,  failed,  in  pharmacy.  He  was  still 
in  hope  of  something  being  done  to  establish  a  course  o£" 
instruction  in  pharmacy  in  connection  with  their  schools, 
which  should  prove  a  distinct  gain  to  candidates  prepar- 
ing for  the  examination.  For  the  assistants'  examina- 
tion 8  candidates  presented  themselves,  of  whom  5  failed. 
For  the  registered  druggists'  examination  there  were  28' 
candidates,  of  whom  11  passed. 

the  schools. 

The  attendance  at  the  schools  had  been  fairly  well  main- 
tained throughout  the  session,  there  being  35  (an  in- 
crease of  8)  at  the  Botany  and  Materia  Medica  School,, 
and  19  (a  decrease  of  1)  at  the  Chemistry  School- 
Ths  Materia  Medica  School  was  very  efficiently  conducted! 
by  Dr.  Ashe,  who  spared  no  pains  to  impart  a  thorough- 
knowledge  of  the  subject  to  the  students.  They  were- 
sorry  to  lose  the  services  of  Mr.  L.  B.  Smyth,  B.A..  as- 
lecturer  in  botany,  but  they  congratulated  him  on  having 
received  a  Government  appointment  in  connection  with  the- 
Department  of  Agriculture.  Mr.  Arnold  K.  Henry,  B.A., 
Senior  Moderator  (Gold  Medallist)  T.C.D..  assistant  to 
the  Professor  of  Botany  in  Dublin  University,  had  been- 
appointed  to  the  vacancy.  It  was  unsatisfactory  to  note- 
that  only  one  student  obtained  a  prize  during  the  past 
school-year,  Mr.  Ian  Alexander  Clarke  having  been? 
awarded  a  first  prize  in  chemistry.  As  already  mentioned,, 
this  student   passed  the  Preliminary  examination  with 


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honours,  with  the  high  percentage  of  85g.  The  examina- 
tions for  these  school  prizes  were  left  in  the  hands  of  the 
lecturers.  Following  the  determined  effort  made  last  year 
on  behalf  of  the  Dublin  Technical  School  to  force  the 
Council  to  recognise  a  new  class  in  botany  and  materia 
medica,  and  in  which  effort  they  invoked  the  aid  of  Dublin 
Castle,  concerted  action  had  been  taken  by 

SEVERAL  PROVINCIAL  SCHOOLS 

with  a  view  to  having  these  courses  in  chemistry  (and,  in 
some  cases,  in  materia  medica)  recognised.  In  view  of  the 
importance  of  the  question  it  was  thought  advisable  to 
postpone  consideration  of  the  matter  for  six  months.  That 
■decision  was  come  to  in  April,  so  that  the  matter  would 
come  up  for  consideration  again  at  the  next  Council 
meeting,  and  the  members  would  have  an  opportunity 
that  night  of  expressing  their  views  on  the  matter.  But, 
after  the  scathing  criticism  by  the  Department  of  Agri- 
culture and  Technical  Instruction  on  the  methods  of  con- 
ducting the  technical  schools  in  the  City  of  Dublin,  he 
thought  the  members  would  agree  that  the  action  of  the 
Council  was  perfectly  justified  so  far  as  Kevin  Street  was 
concerned.  In  a  letter  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Technical 
Instruction  Committee  the  Secretary  of  the  Department 
practically  told  him  that  the  want  of  supervision  and 
method  in  the  conduct  of  the  schools  could  not  be  worse 
and  if  not  remedied  must  end  in  failure.  He  did  not  for 
one  moment  make  any  reflection  on  the  lecturers  in  the 
particular  subjects,  but  they  must  be  permitted  to  look  to 
those  in  authority  for  some  guarantee  that  the  instruction 
given  was  on  proper  lines  and  in  conformity  with  the 
course  laid  down  in  their  syllabus  before  recognising  a 
school.  As  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Privy  Council  had 
been  appealed  to  in  the  matter,  he  thought  "their  attention 
should  be  directed  to  the  true  state  of  affairs  and  that 
they  should  be  shown  that  the  attitude  of  the  Society  in 
the  matter  of  the  Kevin  Street  Schools  was  not  so  wide  of 
the  mark  after  all.  In  making  these  remarks  he  recog- 
nised that  the 

TEACHING  OF  SCIENCE  IN  TECHNICAL  SCHOOLS 

deserved  every  encouragement  and  that  their  young  men 
should  be  encouraged  to  avail  themselves  of  the 'instruction 
in  general  science.  If  the  practice  was  more  generally 
followed  they  would  be  better  prepared  to  avail  themselves 
■of  the  special  courses  in  pharmaceutical  chemistry  after- 
wards. At  the  same  time,  it  had  always  appeared  to  him 
a  singular  thing  that  their  schools  should  be  singled  out 
for  attack  and  that  the  operation  did  not  extend  to  the  new 
University  College,  the  College  of  Surgeons,  or  Trinity 
College.  _  Owing  to  the  fact  that  it  was  not  compulsory 
on  the  licensing  authorities  under  the  Poisons  and  Phar- 
macy Act  of  1908  to  notify  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of 
the  name  of  persons  to  whom  licences  were  granted,  the 
Law  Committee  had  had  considerable  difficulty  in  ascer- 
taining accurate  particulars  of 

ILLEGAL  SALES  OF  POISONS  ; 

■and  although  they  had  reason  to  believe  that  the  practice 
-of  poison-selling  by  unqualified  and  unlicensed  persons  was 
still  very  prevalent,  there  was  great  difficulty  experienced 
in  obtaining  sufficient  evidence  to  sustain  a  prosecution. 
As  these  traders  would  only  sell  to  persons  known  to  them, 
and  as  it  was  obviously  impossible  to  get  a  local  person 
to  make  the  purchase  and  take  the  necessary  trouble  in  the 
matter,  their  inspectors'  visits  were  generally  abortive. 
These  unsuccessful  visits  of  their  inspectors  entailed  a  con- 
siderable expense  on  the  Society.  The  police,  when  they 
moved  in  the  matter,  met  with  no  better  success.  He  had 
compiled  a  list  of  the  number  of  licences  granted  under 
the  1908  Act  by  thirty-three  licensing  authorities  in  Ire- 
land. He  had  been  unable  to  get  the  figures  for  three — 
namely,  the  counties  of  Cork,  Fermanagh,  and  Kilkenny. 
There  were  in  all  443  licences,  the  largest  number  being 
117  in  County  Galway,  with  14  qualified  dealers,  the 
lowest  being  Leitrim  with  none.  There  was  one  in  each  of 
the  counties  of  Louth,  Monaghan,  and  Sligo,  and  two  in 
each  of  the  counties  of  Antrim  and  Down.  He  had  pre- 
pared a  list,  which  he  would  not  now  inflict  upon  them, 
but  which  perhaps  the  journals  would  publish.  It  gave 
a  list  for  the  different  counties  of  the  number  of  licences, 


the  number  of  sheep,  and  the  number  of  qualified  shops. 
They  had  made  a  number  of  inquiries  with  regard  to  the 
sale  of  poisons  to  ascertain  if  the  regulations  laid  down 
by  the  Privy  Council  were  being  carried  out,  and  he  was 
afraid  the  shopkeepers  were  very  lax  in  the  matter  of 
having  separate  departments  in  their  business  premises  for 
the  handling  of  these  poisons.  But  the  police  up  to  the 
present  had  not  taken  action,  and  the  Council  had  held 
their  hands  to  see  whether  the  police  would  move  in  the 
matter  of  insisting  upon  the  regulations  being  carried  out. 
One  unqualified  trader  had  been  prosecuted  and  fined  for 
selling  poisons.  Two  registered  druggists  were  prosecuted 
and  fined  for  compounding  medical  prescriptions,  and  in 
another  case  a  registered  druggist  was  fined  for  conducting 
a  branch  shop  without  a  qualified  manager.  In  the  matter 
of  finance  the  Treasurer  would  tell  them  that  they  had 
been  able  to  run  the  affairs  of  the  Society  within  the 
income,  and  that  they  had  a  small  margin  to  spare.  The 
premises  had  required  a  considerable  outlay  to  put  them 
in  thorough  repair  and  to  overhaul  the  sewerage.  In  con- 
clusion, he  expressed  thanks  to  his  colleagues  on  the 
Council  for  the  ready  assistance  they  had  given  him  at  all 
times  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  as  President,  and  also  to 
their  worthy  and  most  painstaking  Registrar,  Mr.  Ferrall, 
for  the  readiness  with  which  he  discharged  all  the  duties 
required  of  him,  thereby  making  the  routine  work  com- 
paratively easy.  (Applause.) 

Financial  Statement. 
Mr.  G.  D.  Beggs  (the  Treasurer)  submitted  the  balance- 
sheet.  He  said,  although  the  balance  to  their  credit  was 
small,  it  was  very  fair  considering  that  they  had  had  a 
certain  outlay  on  the  house  in  order  to  keep  it  in  proper 
order.  Economy  combined  with  efficiency  had  been  very 
carefully  observed.  Then  fees  for  the  year  amounted  to 
considerably  less  than  last  year,  there  being  a  falling  off 
of  581.  There  was  a  small  increase  of  81.  in  their  sub- 
scriptions. Taking  the  balance-sheet  as  it  was  laid  before 
them,  they  would  find  that  their  money  capital  had  in- 
creased by  135/.  0s.  11c?.  He  considered  that  the  balance- 
sheet  should  be  in  the  hands  of  members  at  the  same  time 
as  the  election  dockets.  With  that  view  he  would  be  very 
happy  to  make  arrangements  to  close  their  balance-sheet 
a  fortnight  earlier  than  the  annual  meeting,  and  keep 
over  any  accounts  that  may  come  in  during  the  interval 
and  carry  them  forward,  because  he  did  not  think  it  was 
fair  to  the  members  of  the  Society  to  place  such  a  mass  of 
figures  before  them  just  before  the'meeting.  The  following 
is  a  summary  of  the  balance-sheet : 


Income. 
To    balance  due 
Bank  of  Ireland 

Fees   

Subscriptions 


£  s. 

by 

...  153  11 
...  596  8 
...  294  0 


Dividends,  fines, 
and  sundries 


rents, 


84  11  3 


263  17 
168  0 

73  5 
48  10 
32  12 


Expenditure. 
Examiners'    fees  and 

fees  refunded 
Registrar,  Salary 
"  The     Chemist  and 

Drug-gist "   

Rent  and  taxes 

Law  costs   

Travelling  expenses 
of  Country  Members 

of  Council   

Purchase  of  120Z. 
4s.  Wd.  New  2\  pel- 
cent.  Stock   100 

Balance  due  by  Bank 

of  Ireland   168  7 

Sundries  221  16 


57  16  9 


0  0 


Total   1128  10  4  I         Total   1128  10  4 

The  society's  investments  amount  to  1.849Z.  0s.  5d. 

Mr.  Michie  moved  the  adoption  of  the  accounts. 

Dr.  Walsh  seconded.  He  considered  there  would  be  a 
difficulty  in  having  the  balance-sheet  prepared  as  early  as 
had  been  suggested  by  Mr.  Beggs.  Most  of  the  fees  for  the 
October  examinations  came  in  between  September  14  and 
October  1,  and  should  make  a  considerable  difference  in 
their  balance-sheet  for  the  financial  year  if  the  books  were 
closed  on  September  14.  He  did  not  know  whether  there 
was  any  by-law  compelling  them  to  make  up  their  ac- 
counts to  September  30. 

Mr.  Beggs  said  he  would  like  to  see  some  means  of 
getting  over  the  difficulty,  which  he  did  not  think  was 
insurmountable. 

Mr.  Ferrall  (Registrar)  said  it  was  laid  down  that  the 
financial  year  should  commence  on  October  1  and  ter- 
minate on  September  30  in  the  following  year. 


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Mr.  Beggs  :  Is  there  any  difficulty  in  carrying  over  the 
few  accounts  that  come  in  after  September  14? 
The  Registrar  :  I  don't  think  so. 
The  accounts  were  unanimously  adopted. 

Life  Membership. 

Mr.  Cahill  said  the  great  majority  of  the  members  did 
not  know  of  the  advantage  which  they  had  of  becoming 
life  members  by  the  payment  of  ten  guineas  after  they 
became  licentiates.  If  this  fact  were  known  they  would 
probably  have  more  honorary  members. 

Mr.  Wells  said  it  might  be  an  encouragement  to  the 
younger  members  to  pay  their  ten  guineas  if  they  knew 
that  Mr.  Allen  had  paid  35?.  14s.  into  the  funds  of  the 
Society  and  that  Mr.  Beggs  and  himself  had  paid  about 
21.  less.  It  would  have  been  a  good  investment  if  they 
had  paid  the  ten  guineas. 

The  President  said  the  best  way  to  get  publicity  for 
Mr.  Cahill's  suggestion  was  that  the  reporter  should  take 
a  note  of  it  and  also  of  what  Mr.  Wells  had  stated. 

Technical  Schools. 

A  discussion  took  place  in  reference  to  the  recognition 
of  the  technical  schools. 

Dr.  Walsh  thought  it  would  be  far  better  not  to  have 
the  technical  schools  in  the  syllabus  at  all,  inasmuch  as 
they  had  no  control  over  them. 

Dr.  Ashe  thought  it  would  be  a  great  mistake  to  recog- 
nise them. 

Mr.  Wells  considered  they  had  acted  very  wisely  in 
the  attitude  they  had  adopted  up  to  the  present.  He 
considered  the  suggestion  of  the  President  a  good  one 
that  the  technical  schools  should  be  availed  of  as  a  pre- 
liminary to  entering  the  schools  in  the  society's  list. 

The  proceedings  then  terminated. 

Prescription  Problem. 

THE  exercise  given  in  our  issue  of  September  17  proved 
beyond  the  capacity  of  our  readers  both  at  home  and 
abroad,  the  apparent  difficulty  of  the  exercise  making  the 
response  much  poorer  than  usual.    We  wish  to  remind  com- 
petitors, especially  our  Continental  confreres,  that  tran- 
scriptions sent  in  should  be  literatim,  a  letter  incorrectly 
given  militating  against  the  possibility  of  gaining  a  prize. 
Our  reading  of  the  script  is  as  follows  : 
Hydrobrom  kali  15 
Sir  cort  aur  25 
Aq  depurat  125 
'  d.s.    3xd.  1.  1. 

den  Heer  v  Hall. 
The  ingredients  of  the  prescription  gave  but  little  diffi- 
culty, although  calcium  and  caffeine  hydrobromides  were 
substituted  in  two  instances.  The  main  obstacle  lay  in 
the  directions,  which  in  full  are:  "Da  signa  :  3  x  daag 
1  loffel."  The  cabalistic  sign  below  the  directions  is  given 
variously  as  the  physician's  signature  or  v  =  voor  or  voll. 

Replies  to  the  next  exercise,  which  is  given  below,  should 
be  sent  in  not  later  than  October  15.  Four  copies  of  "  The 
Chemist's  Medical  Dictionary  "  have  been  set  aside  as  prizes. 


Trade  Report  &  Market  Review. 


The  prices  given  in  this  section  are  those  obtained  by  importers 
or  manufacturers  for  bulk  quantities  or  original  packages.  To 
tnese  prices  various  charges  have  to  be  added,  whereby 
values  are  in  many  instances  greatly  augmented  before  whole- 
sale dealers  stock  the  goods.  Qualities  of  chemicals,  drugs, 
oils,  and  many  other  commodities  vary  greatly,  and  higher 
prices  than  those  here  quoted  are  obtained  for  selected 
qualities  of  natural  products  even  in  bulk  quantities.  Retail 
buyers  cannot,  therefore,  for  these  and  other  reasons,  expect 
to  purchase  at  these  prices. 

42  Cannon  Street,  London,  EX.,  October  6. 

I)  EPORTS  as  to  the  condition  of  business  in  the  chemical 
^  and  drug  trades  vary  somewhat,  but  on  the  whole  there 
is  a  firm  undertone,  with  a  larger  number  of  price-alterations 
than  usual.  In  the  fine  chemical  section  the  principal 
change  is  another  advance  (6<7.)  in  cocaine,  but  in  the 
absence  of  a  convention,  makers'  prices  are  irregular.  A 
small  and  sudden  advance  (l^d.  to  lfrf.)  took  place  in 
bromides  at  the  close  of  last  week,  makers  selling  for 
prompt  delivery  only.  The  santonin  advance  (Is.  6d.)  is 
confirmed.  English  refined  camphor  is  Id.  lower  as  the 
result  of  foreign  competition.  Quicksilver  was  reduced 
last  week,  but  mercurials  are  unaltered.  Chrysarobin  is 
cheaper.  Cream  of  tartar  remains  strong  and  again 
higher,  tartaric  acid  being  firm.  Among  drugs  and  oik, 
Sumatra  benzoin  is  scarce  and  dearer  privately,  nothing 
being  offered  at  auction.  Chamomiles  are  easier.  Copaiba 
is  firmer.  Clove  oil  is  firm,  but  almond  oil  is  tending 
easier,  as  is  cubeb  oil.  Hydrastis  and  Mogador  orris  are 
dearer.  Castor  oil  easier.  The  Smyrna  opium  market  has 
been  partially  closed  this  week,  and  prices  are  unaltered, 
but  the  undertone  is  regarded  as  strong.  Rhatany  and 
valerian  are  cheaper.  Menthol  and  Japanese  peppermint 
oil  have  been  active  at  advancing  rates,  the  chief  outlet 
being  for  export.  Star-aniseed  oil  of  undoubted  purity  is 
firm  and  scarce.  Acacia  gums  are  also  firm,  spot  prices 
having  advanced  considerably  during  the  past  fortnight. 
The  following  are  the  principal  changes  of  the  week,  in- 
cluding those  recorded  at  the  drug  auctions  : 


Higher 

Firmer 

Easier 

Lower 

Benzoin  (Sum.) 
Bromides 
Cardamoms 
Cocaine 
Coca  leaves 

(Ceylon) 
Orris  (Mog.) 
Santonin 
Shellac 

Benzols 
Copaiba 
Cream  of 

tartar 
Hydrastis 
Menthol 
Wood  oil 

Boldo  leaves 
Castor  oil 
Chamomiles 
Chrysarobin 
Cod-liver  oil 
Valerias  root 

Buchu 

Calumba 

Camphor 

(Kng.  ref.) 
Indiarubber 
Ipecacuanha 
Pimento 
Quicksilver 
Rhatany 

1  <hC  'ngfa~' 

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Cablegram. 

New  York,  October  6. — Business  in  drugs  is  moderate. 
Opium  is  nominal  at  $4.75  per  lb.  for  druggists  by  single 
cases.  Peppermint  oil  in  tins  is  firm  at  $2.25  per  lb.  Jalap 
is  easier  at  45c.  Hydrastis  (golden  seal)  is  firm  at  $2.25. 
Iodides  have  been  advanced  by  10c.  Cascara  sagrada  and 
copaiba  are  unaltered. 

London  Markets. 

Acid,  Tartaric,  is  firm  at  10fd.  per  lb.  for  foreign  and 
at  Is.  for  English. 

Aniseed. — New  crop  Russian  for  present  shipment  from 
Hamburg  is  quoted  24s.  per  cwt.  c.i.f.  for  at  least  half -ton 
lots.  The  spot  market  is  quiet  at  23s.  6d.  to  24s.  6d.  per 
cwt.  for  ordinary  to  good  Russian  and  35s.  for  Spanish. 

Balsam  Toltj. — A  jobbing  demand  is  reported  at  lid. 
per  lb.  for  large  tins. 

Benzoin. — Owing  to  the  paucity  of  supplies  nothing  was 
offered  at  auction  to-day.    Privately  there  are  only  one  or 


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two  small  parcels  in  first-hands,  the  price  of  good  Sumatra 
seconds  being  8/.  per  cwt. 

Benzols. — Firmer  at  from  6c?.  to  6^d.  per  gal.  for  90  per 
cent.,  and  7c?.  for  50  per  cent. 

Boldo -leave s  are  cheaper,  fresh  supplies  having  been  re- 
ceived in  Hamburg.    5d.  per  lb.  c.i.f.  will  buy. 

Bromides. — On  October  1  the  makers  advanced  the  price 
of  potassium  bromide  by  l\d.  per  lb.  to  ll^c?.  for  1-cwt. 
lots.  Ammonium  and  sodium  were  also  advanced  by  lfc?. 
to  Is.  2§  d.  and  Is.  lfc?.  per  lb.  respectively,  all  net.  These 
prices  are  for  prompt  delivery  only,  no  forward  contracts 
being  booked.  Most  second-hand  holders  now  ask  lid. 
per  lb. ;  previous  to  the  advance  a  fair  business  was  done 
in  such  parcels  at  slightly  under  these  figures. 

Camphor  (Refined). — The  English  refiners  have  reduced 
the  price  of  bells  by  Id.  per  lb.  to  Is.  lid.  and  to  Is.  lOd. 
in  1-cwt.  lots.  Blocks  are  also  Id.  lower  at  Is.  lOd.  for 
5,  and  1  lb.  in  7,  14,  or  28  lb.  boxes,  with  other  sizes  at  pro- 
portionate prices.  Sellers  of  Japanese  2j-lb.  slabs 
quote  Is.  5c?.  per  lb.  c.i.f.  for  November -January  shipment. 
In  auction  17  cases  of  ^-oz  Japanese  tablets  were  limited  at 
Is.  iyt.  per  lb.  net. 

Canary-seed  is  steady  but  slow  of  sale  at  41s.  per  quarter 
for  Turkish  and  ordinary  Morocco,  at  46s.  to  52s.  6c?.  for 
medium  to  fine  Morocco,  and  65s.  to  75s.  for  good  to  fine 
bold  Spanish. 

Caraway-seed  is  unchanged  at  25s.  per  cwt.  for  new 
crop  and  27s.  for  good  old  crop  Dutch  on  the  spot. 
,  Chamomiles  are  easier,  with  first  Belgian  pickings  obtain- 
able at  95s.,  seconds  at  80s.,  and  thirds  at  75s. ;  old  flowers 
offer  at  62s.  6c?.  upwards. 

Chrysarobin. — The  makers  now  quote  6s.  6d.  per  lb. 
net,  a  reduction  of  6d. 

Cinchona. — The  exports  from  Java  during  September 
amounted  to  1,814,000  Amsterdam  lb.,  against  2,016,000 
Amsterdam  lb.  during  September  1909.  The  total  ship- 
ments from  January  to  September  amount  to  14,032,000 
Amsterdam  lb.,  against  11,681,000  Amsterdam  lb. 

Cocaine. — As  anticipated  last  week,  the  market  has 
has  further  advanced  (6c?.),  one  of  the  leading  makers 
now  quoting  8s.  5d.  per  oz.  less  5  per  cent,  for  hydrochloride 
in  200-oz.  lots,  while  another  having  sold  a  fair  quantity 
at  8s.  2c?.  appears  to  have  withdrawn  that  price.  In  second 
hands  business  has  been  done  at  7s.  3d.  net,  but  7s.  6c?.  net 
is  now  a  more  general  quotation. 

Copaiba  Balsam  is  firmer,  with  sales  of  guaranteed 
filtered  B.P.  at  from  Is.  8±d.  to  Is.  9c?.  per  lb. 

Copper  Sulphate  since  last  quoted  has  advanced  5s.  to 
181.  10s.  per  ton  for  ordinary  Liverpool  makes,  and  to  191. 
for  spring  delivery. 

Coriander-seed  is  steady  but  quiet  at  15s.  6d.  to  16s.  6d. 
per  cwt.  for  wormy  Morocco  and  18s.  to  19s.  for  good 
sound  old  crop.  The  new  crop  is  difficult  of  sale  on  account 
of  its  weathered  condition.  Russian  is  offering  at  16s., 
and  good  English  old  crop  at  27s.  6d.  to  30s.  per  cwt. 

Cream  of  Tartar  remains  a  very  strong  market  at  a 
further  advance  of  Is.,  the  closing  quotations  being  88s. 
for  95  per  cent.,  90s.  for  98  per  cent.,  and  91s.  for  99  to 
100  per  cent. 

Creosote,  ex-Beechwood,  has  been  advanced  in  one 
quarter  to  Is.  8d.  per  lb.  net  in  20  kilo,  demijohns. 

Cumin-seed  is  unchanged  at  33s.  to  37s.  per  cwt.  for 
common  to  good  sifted  Morocco  and  38s.  to  42s.  f  or  ordinary 
to  fine  Malta. 

Fenugreek-seed  sells  slowly  at  8s.  6d.  to  9s.  for  weathered 
and  10s.  6c?.  for  good  Morocco. 

Ginger. — Nothing  offered  at  auction.  Privately  the  sales 
include  fair  washed  Cochin  at  from  48s.  to  48s.  6d. 

Hexamethylentetramine  is  dearer  at  from  Is.  lOd.  to 
Is.  11c?.  per  lb.  net  as  to  quantity. 

Hydrastis. — Since  we  last  quoted,  the  price  has  further 
advanced,  practically  the  only  holders  asking  9s.  9c?.  per  lb. 
net.  A  large  export  business  to  the  Continent  has  been 
done  recently. 

Indiarubber. — At  auction  about  210  tons  plantation- 
rubber  offered,  and  sold  at  an  average  decline  of  Is.,  while 
the  price  of  fine  hard  Para  has  declined  about  Is.  6c?.  since 
the  last  sale.    A  good  business  has  been  done  privately, 

Index  F 


chiefly  in  distant  positions  at  from  5s.  9c?.  to  5s.  ll^rf.,  spot 
closing  at  5s.  10c?.  for  hard  fine. 

Juniper-oil  distilled  from  the  berry  is  cheaper  at 
18s.  6c?.  per  lb.  for  finest  English. 

Lime-juice. — Concentrated  West  Indian  is  firm  with  a 
fair  business  at  18?.  15s. 

Linseed  is  firm  again  after  a  slight  reaction.  Dutch  is 
quoted  75s.  and  Morocco  72s.  6c?.  to  75s.  per  quarter. 

Lycopodium  is  firm  and  only  sparingly  offered  from 
Russia  at  Is.  l^d.  per  lb.  c.i.f.  for  treble-sifted  quality. 

Menthol. — With  continued  buying  for  American 
account,  all  the  cheap  parcels  of  Kobayashi  and  Suzuki  were 
cleared  on  Saturday  last,  about  50  cases  changing  hands 
at  mostly  10s.  3c?.,  but  since  smaller  sales  have  been  made 
at  from  10s.  6c?.  to  10s.  9c?.,  with  lis.  asked.  To  arrive  a 
fair  business  has  been  done,  including  October- November 
shipment  at  10s.  l^c?.  to  10s.  3c?.  c.i.f.  for  Kobayashi,  and 
Suzuki  at  10s.  lc?.  for  November-December,  and  buyers. 

The  exports  of  menthol  from  Japan  during  July  were 
6.584  kin,  valued  at  35,205  yen;  for  the  seven  months  ending: 
July  31  the  exports  were  :  1910,  61,206  kin,  value  317,294  yen ; 
1909,  50,666  kin,  value  236,516  yen ;  and  1908,  36,960  kin,  value- 
174,424  yen. 

Morphine. — Prices  are  unaltered  at  from  6s.  6c?.  to 
6s.  9c?.  per  oz.  for  hydrochloride  powder,  second  hands- 
offering  at  6s.  4c?.  per  oz. 

Oil,  Almond. — Raw  material  being  in  better  supply,- 
prices,  which  are  as  yet  unaltered,  may  decline  slightly  : 
2s.  to  2s.  lc?.  per  lb.  is  quoted  for  true  B.P.  Peacli-kernel 
oil  is  quoted  at  from  11c?.  to  Is.  net  as  to  quantity. 

Oil,  Aniseed  Star. — Genuine  oil  is  firm  at  from  5s.  to 
5s.  3c?.  per  lb.  as  to  quantity,  and  to  arrive  from  4s.  5^c?.  to 
4s.  6c?.  c.i.f.  is  quoted.  The  dispute  referred  to  last  week- 
does  not  yet  appear  to  have  been  settled. 

Oil,  Bergamot,  remains  firm  at  primary  sources,  as  the 
available  supply  is  but  small,  and  the  prospects  for  the 
new  crop  are  not  brilliant.  There  are  no  offers  of  new 
crop  as  yet;  from  15s.  to  15s.  6c?.  per  lb.  c.i.f.  is  quoted. 

Oil,  Castor,  is  easier,  Hull  make  of  medicinal  quality 
offering  at  33?.  15s.,  and  first  pressing  at  31?.  5s.  per  ton  in 
barrels  for  prompt  to  December,  delivered  free  on  wharf 
London  ;  cases  50s.  per  ton  extra.  Belgian  firsts  for  prompt 
delivery  is  31?.  10s.  ex  wharf. 

Oil,  Clove,  is  firm  at  from  3s.  6^c?.  to  3s.  8c?.  per  lb.  for 
English  distilled  as  to  quantity. 

Oil,  Cod-liver. — Our  Bergen  correspondent  writes  on 
October  3  that  market  is  dull,  and  very  little  business  is 
being  done ;  finest  non- congealing  Lofoten  cannot  be  quoted! 
above  109s.  6c?.  to  110s.  per  barrel  c.i.f.  terms.  The  total 
exports  from  all  Norway  to  date  amount  to  about  25,100 
barrels,  against  26,300  barrels  at  the  same  date  of  1909. 

Oil,  Lemon. — According  to  Sicilian  advices,  the  market 
is  unchanged  on  the  basis  of  from  3s.  4c?.  to  3s.  6c?.  per  lb. 
c.i.f.  The  principal  demand  in  Sicily  has  been  from  Ger- 
many, English  buyers  still  holding  off  the  market. 

Oil,  Lime. — Good  West  Indian  distilled  is  quoted  Is.  5c?. 
to  Is.  6c?.  per  lb.,  and  hand-pressed  at  5s.  9c?.  to  6s.,  with 
small  supplies. 

Oil,  Orange. — The  demand  from  Sicily  is  reported  to  be 
fairly  active  for  both  prompt  and  new  crop,  and  sellers 
are  endeavouring  to  obtain  better  prices ;  from  6s.  per  lb. 
c.i.f.  London  and  upwards  is  quoted. 

Oil,  Peppermint. — The  chief  interest  has  centred  in 
Japanese  demenETiolised,  fair  sales  of  which  have  been  made 
at  from  6s.  3c?.  to  6s.  6c?.  spot  for  Kobayashi.  To  arrive, 
the  sales  include  Kobayashi  for  September- October  and 
October-November  shipments  at  6s.  2c?.  to  6s.  3c?.  c.i.f.r 
and  Suzuki  for  November-December  at  5s.  ll^c?.  to  6s. 
c.i.f.  American  HGH  is  offered  at  12s.  6c?.,  London  terms, 
at  which  sales  have  been  made,  and  good  Wayne  County 
tin  oil  at  10s.  spot,  or  10s.  c.i.f.  In  the  drug-auction  10> 
cases  of  Suzuki  were  bought  in  at  6s.  6c?.  per  lb. 

The  exports  from  Japan  during  July  were  6,332  kin,  valued! 
at  19,496  yen;  for  the  seven  months  (January  to  July)  the- 
figures  are  : 

1908  1909  1910 

Yen    56,152  95.123  92.617 

Kin    163,322  278.087  283,336 

Oil,  Turpentine,  closes  at  53s.  9c?.  per  cwt.  for  American) 
on  the  spot. 
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THE  CHEMIST  AND  DRUGGIST 


63 


Opium. — Owing  to  native  holidays  in  Smyrna  several  days 
this  week,  market  has  been  closed,  and  the  quotation  for 
11£  per  cent,  remains  unchanged  at  12s.  6d.  per  lb.  c.i.f. 
Persian  10  per  cent,  is  offered  forward  at  15s. ,  which  is,  of 
•course,  prohibitive. 

A  Smyrna  correspondent  writes  on  September  23  that  the 
sales  amount  to  200  cases,  as  follows  : 

33  cases  for  U.S.A.,  selected  t.q.  at.  13s. 
18  cases  for  U.S.A.,  extra  t.q.  at  13s.  6d. 
100  cases  for  Japan,  extra  t.q.  at  13s.  6d. 

1  case  for  the  Continent,  extra  t.q.  at  13  s.  6d. 
48  cases  for  Speculators,  extra  t.q.  at  13s.  6d. 

It  will  be  noted  from  the  above  that  the  prices  have  declined 
Iby  bd.  per  lb.  from  last  week's  figures,  but  if  Japan  and  the 
U.S.A.  continue  to  buy  largely  prices  are  likely  to  advance 
.again.  The  arrivals  to  date  amount  to  3,319  cases,  against 
1,426  cases. — Another  Smyrna  correspondent  advises  us  under 
•date  of  September  24  that  the  sales  amounted  to  175  cases  for 
America  at  120  piastres  for  first  choice  Karahissar  (13s.  4cZ.) 
and  125  piastres  for  Karahissar  merchandise  (13s.  9d.)  c.i.f. 
European  ports.  A  slight  concession  on  the  part  of  holders 
facilitated  these  important  deals,  and  as  the  situation  is  ab- 
normal and  the  advance  too  6udden,  much  tension  character- 
ises the  situation,  and  fluctuations  may  be  expected. 
Speculators  are  buying  at  the  prices  quoted  above. 

Petroleum. — Prices  are  nominal  in  view  of  the  oil  war. 
Prussian  is  quoted  5^d.  to  5fcZ.,  and  American  5ft/.  to  b^d. 
spot. 

Potassium  Iodide. — The  exports  from  Japan  during  July 
were  1,951  kin,  valued  at  8,657  yen.  For  the  seven  months 
<(January-July)  the  figures  are  : 

1908  1909  1910 

Kin   15,123         15,482         35  730 

Yen   63,563         71,619  161,224 

Of  crude  iodine  the  exports  so  far  this  year  amount  to 
6,023  kin,  as  against  10,735  kin  in  1909  and  8,617  kin  in 
1908. 

Quicksilver. — On  Thursday  (September  29)  the  principal 
importer  reduced  his  price  by  5s.  per  bottle  to  81.  7s.  6d., 
and  in  second-hands  81.  Is.  to  8/.  2s.  is  quoted.  Mercurials 
are  unaltered. 

Quinine  is  unaltered  on  the  basis  of  l^d.  per  oz.  for 
German  sulphate  from  makers,  and  6§<7.  from  second-hands  ; 
Amsterdam  is  offered  at  b^d.,  and  Java  at  6^d.  to  6|rf. 
per  oz.  The  landings  in  London  during  September  were 
195,200  oz.,  and  the  deliveries  62,672  oz.,  leaving  a  stock  on 
September  30  of  3,665,856  oz.,  against  3,237,408  oz.  in  1909. 

Rhatany. — With  plentiful  arrivals  on  the  Continent 
prices  have  declined,  and  there  are  now  offers  of  good  to  fine 
coot  at  from  54.cZ.  to  5jrf.  per  lb.  c.i.f.  terms. 

Santonin.' — As  indicated  in  our  last,  the  makers  advanced 
their  prices  by  Is.  bd.  per  lb.  to  43s.  3rf.  net  per  lb.,  the 
quotation  for  2  cwt.  in  one  delivery  being  39s.  Zd.  net. 

Senega. — Small  spot  sales  have  been  made  at  Is.  11c?.  per 
ib.  net,  and  to  arrive  Is.  ll^cZ.  c.i.f.  is  quoted.  Letter 
advices  indicate  that  prices  will  go  clearer,  but  the  spot 
■market  is  well  supplied  at  present. 

Shellac  is  dearer,  fair  TN  being  now  quoted  at  86s. 
spot,  October-December  shipment  at  84s.  6d.,  and  AC  for 
December -January  has  been  sold  at  78s.  bd.  c.i.f.  A 
good  business  has  been  done  in  futures  at  advancing  prices, 
about  1,500  cases  changing  hands  on  Wednesday. 

Soda  Crystals.- — The  London  price  is  60s.  per  ton  in 
barrels  and  57s.  bd.  in  bags,  while,  as  already  intimated, 
there  is  to  be  a  reduction  of  5s.  to  the  home  trade  for  the 
first  three  months  of  1911. 

Stavesacre  Seed  continues  scarce,  with  a  parcel  offering 
for  shipment  at  46s.  bd.  per  cwt.  c.i.f. 

Terpin  Hydrate  has  been  advanced  as  the  result  of  an 
arrangement  among  makers,  who  quote  from  Is.  l^d.  to 
Is.  2^d.  per  lb.  as  to  quantity. 

Valerian. — There  are  offers  of  the  new  crop  at  the  easier 
urate  of  26s.  bd.  per  cwt.  c.i.f. 

Wax,  Japan. — Good  squares  are  steady  at  42s.  bd.  to  43s.  , 
and  for  November-December  shipment  price  is  firm  at 
42s.  c.i.f. 

Wood-oil  is  dearer  since  last  quoted,  with  spot  sales  of 
Hankow  up  to  33s.  per  cwt.,  and  November- January  ship- 
ment up  to  33s.  bd.  c.i.f. 


London  Drug-auctions. 

At  the  auctions  of  first-hand  drugs  the  offerings  were  much 
smaller  than  usual,  the  sales  concluding  at  12.30.  No  Cape 
aloes  offered,  while  Curacao,  Socotrine,  and  Zanzibar  in  cases 
were  neglected.  Benzoin  was  not  offered.  Buchu  declined 
substantially  for  round  leaf.  Ceylon  coca-leaves  were  2d. 
dearer  for  good  green.  Calumba  is  lower,  and  cardamoms, 
which  are  scarce,  brought  higher  prices.  .Colocynth  is  firm  and 
dragon's-blood  quiet,  with  no  good  reboiled  on  offer.  Acacia 
gums  are  strong,  Kordofan  soft  gum  selling  at  an  advance  of 
2s.  bd.  per  cwt.  Full  rates  were  paid  for  middling  Jamaica 
honey.  Matto  Grosso  ipecac,  was  3d.  to  bd.  cheaper,  and  East 
Indian  about  2d.  cheaper  than  last  sale.  Rhubarb  was  quiet. 
Lima-Jamaica  sarsaparilla  was  fully  Id.  dearer,  no  grey 
Jamaica  being  offered.  Native  is  plentiful,  and  hangs  fire. 
Seedlac  and  scablac  were  in  more  demand.  No  senna  offered. 
Beeswax  was  in  demand  at  generally  firmer  rates.  The  fol- 
lowing table  shows  the  quantity  of  goods  offered  and  sold  : 


Aloes—  Offered  Sold 

Curasao  (boxes)  25  ...  0 

Socotrine  (kegs)  20  ...  0 

Zanzibar  (cs.)  ...  17  ...  0 

Anise  (Russ.)    40  ...  0 

Balsam — 

Peru    5  ...  0 

Belladonna-root...  5  ...  *2 

Buchu    44  .„  11 

Calumba   269  ...  67 

Camphor — 

Jap  ref   17  ...  0 

Canella  alba    5  ...  0 

Cannabis  indica  ...  8  ...  0 

Cardamoms  &  seed  53  ...  50 

Cascarilla   8  ...  3 

Castorum  (keg)  ...  1  ...  0 

Coca-leaves   94  ...  75 

Cochineal   5  ...  5 

Colocynth   5  ...  *1 

Copaiba  balsam  ...  10  ...  0 

Cubebs   36  ...  0 

Cuttle-fishbone...  50...  0 

Digitalis-leaves  ...  2  ...  2 

Dragon's-blood  ...  11  ...  2 

Ergot   10  ...  0 

Gamboge   14  ...  0 

Gum  acacia   135  ...  86 

Honey — 

Jamaica    76  ...  33 

St.  Lucia    5  ...  5 

Ipecacuanha— 

Cartagena   2 

East  Indian   35 


Offered  Sold 


Matto  Grosso 
Minas  

Jalap  

Kola   


17 
4 
18 

22 


1 

*35 
12 
0 
6 
22 


Myrrh    15 

Nux  vomica   79 

Oil- 
cinnamon    10 

copaiba   2 

lime    13 

peppermint    10 

Orange-peel   7 

Orris  (Mog.)   15 

Pepper  (white)  ...  11 

Rhatany    7 

Rhubarb  (China)  12 

Sandarac    1 

Sarsaparilla — 

Lima    18 

Mexican    2 

Native  Jam   28 

Scablac...   17 

(Seedlac   65 

Senna— 

Tinnevelly    1 

Squill   5 

Tamarinds — 

W.I   50 

Tonka  beans    1 

Turmeric    152 

Wax  (bees')— 

Australian   8 

East  African  ...  2 

East  Indian   4  L 

Jamaica    38 

Madagascar   10 

Mombasa    3 

Morocco    11 

Mozambique   ...  72 

West  Indian  ...  1 

Zanzibar    54 


6 
0 

0 
0 
0 
0 
7 
0 
0 
0 
2 
1 

14 
0 

4 
17 

25 

1 

0 

0 
0 
2 

0 
2 
0 
7 
0 
0 
0 
72 
1 
0 


Sold  privately. 


Aloes. — The  11  cases  Cape,  catalogued,  did  not  arrive  in 
time  for  the  sale;  25  boxes  Curacao  were  offered  and  held 
at  38s.  for  black  capey,  the  highest  bid  being  36s.  Of  Zanzi- 
bar in  wooden  cases  without  tins,  12  were  offered  and  held 
at  75s.  for  fair,  but  very  soft.  Socotrine  in  kegs  were  held 
at  80s.  per  cwt. 

Belladonna  Root. — Five  bales  offered,  of  which  two  had 
been  sold  at  private  rates,  and  for  the  remainder  42s.  bd. 
per  cwt.  gross  for  net  was  wanted,  the  parcel  testing  .5  per 
cent,  of  alkaloids. 

Buchu  sold  at  a  decline  of  from  Is.  bd.  to  Is.  Id.  per  lb. 
for  short  broad,  two  bales  of  fair  stalky  leaf  finding 
buyers  at  3s.  llfZ.  per  lb.  For  4  bags  of  fair  greenish 
ovals  Is.  bd.  was  paid,  and  for  very  stalky  ovals  Is.  to 
Is.  Id.  Long-ovals  sold  at  Is.  2d.,  and  Is.  Id.  was  also 
paid  for  green  longs.  From  another  catalogue  32  packages 
were  offered  and  all  bought  in  at  nominal  rates,  no  bids 
being  made. 

Calumba  was  offered  in  quantity  and  partly  sold  at 
lower  rates,  as  holders  are  anxious  to  make  progress; 
51  bags  of  small  to  bold  natural  sorts  sold  at  from  26s.  bd. 
to  27s.  bd.,  and  for  various  lots  of  sea-damaged  from 
15s.  to  16s.  was  paid.  Other  lots  were  bought  in  at 
from  22s.  to  30s. 

Cardamoms  being  scarce  met  with  good  competition  at 
dearer  rates  as  follows  :  Ceylon,  Mysores,  fair  bold  dullish, 
2s.  bd.  ;  medium  to  bold  dullish,  2s.  4c7.  ;  small  and 
medium  dullish,  2s.  Id.  ;  medium  brownish  dull,  2s.  Id.  ; 


Index  Folio  565 


64 


THE  CHEMIST  AND  DRUGGIST 


October  8,  1910 


small  palish,  Is.  10(7.  to  Is.  11(7.  ;  splits,  Is.  9(7.  to  Is.  10(7.  ; 
pale  to  good  seed,  Is.  9(7.  to  Is.  10(7.  per  lb.    Very  few  . 
arrivals  have  taken  place  recently,  as"  evidenced  by  the 
meagre  supply  of  S3  cases  offered  to-day. 

Cascarilla. — No  quill  was  offered,  but  3  barrels  of  dusty 
sittings  sold  without  reserve  at  from  34s.  to  36s.  per  cwt. 

Coca-leaves  realised  an  advance  of  2(7.  per  lb.,  55 
packages  Ceylon-Huanoco  selling  at  Is.  8(7.  for  good  green 
and  Is.  6(7.  for  fair  brownish.  In  another  instance  Id. 
was  paid  for  20  packages  thin  broken  Java  of  Truxillo 
character. 

Cochineal. — Five  bags  of  common  black  Teneriffe  eold 
without  reserve  at  3^(7.  per  lb. 

Colocynth  had  been  partly  sold  privately  at  Is.  per  lb. 
for  small  to  bold  pale  selected  Turkey  apple,  and  for 
3  cases  of  ordinary  broken  the  buying-in  price  was  9(7. 

Copaiba. — For  10  cases  unfiltered  Bahia  Is.  8(7.  was 
asked.  Privately  sales  of  guaranteed  B.P.  have  been  made 
at  from  Is.  8^(7.  to  Is.  9(7. 

Cubebs. — Fair,  slightly,  berries  were  limited  at  97.  10s. 
per  cwt.  About  100  bags  from  various  sources  have  arrived. 

Digitalis-leaves. — Two  bales  of  fair  greenish  sold  at 
52s.  per  cwt.,  no  discount,  gross  for  net.  Privately 
holders  ask  50s.  c.i.f. 

Dragon's-blood. — No  good  re-boiled  lump  was  offered. 
For  a  single  case  of  hard  dull  re-boiled  mixed  lump  87. 
was  paid,  and  duller  seedy  at  67.  10s.  ;  14  packages  have 
arrived  from  Singapore  this  week. 

Ergot. — In  auction  5  bags  of  Ruesian  were  limited  at 
Is.  6(7.  for  sound  and  5  bags  of  Spanish  new  crop  at  Is.  8(7. 

Gum,  Acacia. — Privately  the  market  for  Sudan  sorts  is 
firm,  up  to  42s.,  it  is  said,  having  been  paid  on  the  spot. 
Persian  so-called  insoluble  sorts  are  firm,  the  sales  includ- 
ing small  white  at  25s.  and  sorts  at  22s.  6(7.  per  cwt.  spot. 
In  auctions  of  fair  small  glassy  Sudan  sorts  sold  at  35s.  6(7. 
to  36s.,  and  for  29  bags  pale  soft  Kordofan  52s.  6(7.  was 
paid,  an  advance  of  2s.  6(7.,  while  four  serons  brown  Bar- 
bary  went  at  30s.  per  cwt. 

Honey. — Jamaica  sold  at  full  rates,  no  fine  quality  being 
offered.  Darkish  to  fair  brown  liquid  in  barrels  sold  at  from 
23s.  to  25s.  per  cwt.,  fair  set  and  pale  setting  brown  at 
27s.  to  28s.  6d.  Five  casks  of  fair  pale  liquid  brown  St. 
Lucia  realised  from  23s.  6(7.  to  24s. 

Ipecacuanha. — The  chief  offering  was  a  new  lot  of 
35  bales  East  Indian  root,  which  has  been  analysed  by 
Otto  Hehner,  who  certified  2.28  per  cent,  of  total  alkaloids 
by  weight,  the  broker  also  stating  that  this  analysis  showed 
that  the  parcel  was  the  best  they  had  so  far  received. 
According  to  exterior  appearance  the  root  was  by  no  means 
so  plump  as  some  of  the  earlier  shipments.  Only  two  bales 
of  sittings  sold  publicly,  5s.  8(7.  being  paid,  and  the  remain- 
ing 32  bales  were  firmly  held  at  6s.  The  broker  afterwards 
disposed  of  the  parcel  privately  immediately  after  leaving 
the  rostrum,  6s.  being  paid.  Of  Matto  Grosso  12  bales 
sold  at  from  5s.  10(7.  to  6s.  per  lb.  for  mostly  ordinary 
dull  lean  to  fair,  and  for  one  bale  of  good  bright  6s.  4(7. 
was  paid.  A  bag  of  common  lean  Cartagena  sold  at  5s.  4(7. 
per  lb. 

Jalap  is  firm,  but  quiet.  In  auction  2s.  1(7.  was  wanted 
for  12.86  per  cent,  resin,  and  for  a  lot  of  untested  2s.  to 
2s.  1(7.  was  asked. 

Kola. — Scarce  and  in  demand,  the  sales  including 
20  bags  West  Indian  at  3^(7.  to  3-^(7.  for  fair  bright  halves, 
and  2|(7.  for  mouldy. 

Myrrh. — Only  Somali  grains  were  offered  and  bought 
in  at  40s.,  an  offer  of  36s.  being  refused;  six  bales  of  dust 
realised  22s.  6a. 

Orange-peel. — Dull  Maltese  strip  without  reserve  sold 
at  4^(7.  per  lb.  for  7  cases. 

Orris. — Privately  the  market  is  firmer  with  a  fair  in- 
quiry for  Mogador,  stocks  of  which  are  now  very  bare  on 
spot;  up  to  25s.  is  asked.  At  auction  6  serons  small  to 
bold  pale  selected  Morocco  were  held  at  27s.  6(7.,  fair  bold 
at  25s.,  and  fair  leanish  at  22s.  6(7. 

Sandarac. — A  small  sale  of  ordinary1  blocky  Morocco 
was  made  at  52s.  6(7. 

Sarsaparilla. — No  grey  Jamaica  offered,  neither  is  any 
obtainable  from  second-hands.    Of  Lima-Jamaica  16  bales 


sold  at  Is.  1(7.  for  good  selected,  and  at  Is.  for  fair. 
Native  Jamaica  is  plentiful  and  neglected,  only  4  bales 
selling  at  6^(7.  per  lb.  for  common  dull  mixed  red  and 
yellow.  Two  bales  of  Mexican  also  offered  and  held  at 
10(7.  per  lb. 

Scablac. — Ten  bags  small  dusty  Madras  realised  57s.  6(7., 
and  for  blocky  25s.  was  paid. 

Seedlac  was  in  more  demand,  the  sales  including  25  bags 
of  fair,  bright  orange  at  65s.  per  cwt. 

Wax,  Bees',  was  in  fair  request,  72  packages  Mozambique 
finding  buyers  at  67.  7s.  6(7.  for  drossy  balls,  67.  10s. 
for  small  pale  balls,  77.  2s.  6(7.  for  fair  rolls  yellow  to  dark, 
and  from  6Z.  5s.  to  6Z.  7s.  6(7.  for  dark  rolls.  A  single  case 
of  good  pale  West  Indian  sold  at  87.  2s.  6d.,  and  13  packages 
Jamaica  realised  from  7Z.  12s.  6(Z.  to  7Z.  15s.  per  cwt.  for 
rather  dark  mixed  to  fair  red  and  brown.  Two  bags  East 
African  sold  at  6Z.  12s.  6(7.  per  cwt. 

Manchester  Chemical-market. 

October  4. 

The  unfortunate  dispute  in  the  cotton-trade  continues,  and 
with  the  gradual  stoppage  of  the  bulk  of  mills  there  is  a 
growing  lack  of  confidence  in  the  future.  No  doubt  the 
demand  for  heavy  chemicals  will  be  affected,  but  so  far  the 
home  demand  has  not  lessened,  although  it  is  rather  quiet. 
On  export  account  there  is  a  brisk  inquiry.  Stocks  of  bleach- 
ing-powder  are  rather  low,  but  there  is  no  change  to_  not©  in 
prices  for  current  delivery.  There  is  a  good  business  in 
caustic  soda  at  the  lower  range  of  prices  which  came  into 
operation  recently.  Sulphate  of  copper  is  a  shade  steadier 
at  from  187.  7s.  6(7.  to  187.  10s.  per  ton,  best  brands,  Man- 
chester. There  are  some  lots  still  in  second  hands  which 
arc  being  cleared  at  a  concession  on  these  rates.  Borax  is 
in  good  inquiry.  Sulphur  is  steady  at  7Z.  15s.  to  87.  per  ton 
in  2-cwt.  bags ;  roll,  in  3-cwt.  barrels,  67.  Is.  bd. ;  rock,  5?.  5s. 
per  ton ;  recovered,  47.  5s  to  47.  12s.  6(7.  per  ton— all  on  rails 
at  works.  Arsenic  very  quiet  at  117.  17s.  6(7.  to  127.  5s.  per 
ton,  Manchester.  Acetic  acid  is  steady.  In  coal-tar  pro- 
ducts, sulphate  of  ammonia  is  held  for  high  rates— 127.  8s.  9(7. 
to  127.  10s.  per  ton. 

Heavy  Chemicals. 

There  is  considerable  animation  in  the  heavy  chemical 
market  just  now,  and  both  manufacturers  and  merchants  are 
concluding  a  large  amount  of  business  for  prompt  and  for- 
ward delivery  on  home  and  export  account.  Values  rule  on 
the  steady  side,  with  recent  advances  well  maintained. 

Sulphate  of  Ammonia. — With  this  product  on  the  scarce 
side  quotations  remain  very  steady,  and  in  some  quarters 
further  advances  are  looked  for.  Available  parcels  have 
been  well  taken  up,  and  a  better  business  has  been  done  on 
forward  account.  Present  nearest  values  are :  Beckton, 
25  per  cent,  ammonia  guaranteed,  prompt  12?.  3s.  9(7.  to 
127.  5s.,  and  forward  127.  6s.  3(7.  to  127.  7s.  6(7.  net  cash; 
London,  12?.  2s.  6(7.  net  cash;  Leith.  127.  17s.  6(7.;  Hull, 
12?.  15s.  to  127.  16s.  3(7. ;  and  Liverpool,  127.  15s.  to  127.  16s.  3(7. 

Alumina  Products  are  in  good  average  demand,  and  prices 
are  well  maintained.  Contracts  are  being  taken  out  well, 
and  already  a  good  proportion  of  business  has  been  concluded 
for  1911  delivery,  and  for  the  most  part  at  full  rates.  Crystal 
alum  lump,  57.  5s.  to  57.  12s.  6(7. ;  lump  in  tierces,  57.  10s.  to 
57.  17s.  6(7. ;  and  ground  in  bags,  57.  15s.  to  67.  2s.  6(7.  per  ton 
free  on  rails  Lancashire  or  Yorkshire,  or  f.o.b.  Hull.  Goole, 
or  Liverpool.  Sulphate  of  alumina— purest  qualities  m 
better  and  more  regular  request.  Ordinary  strength  quality, 
practically  free  of  iron,  47.  12s.  6(7.  to  57.  2s.  6(7.  per  ton  in 
casks,  with  customary  allowances  for  bags  and  loose  slabs, 
and  usual  extras  for  similar  pure  quality  in  higher  concen- 
trations. Aluminous  cake,  50s.  to  57s.  6(7.,  and  alumino- 
ferric  50s.  to  57s.  bd.  per  ton,  according  to  quality,  quantity, 
and  destination.  The  demand  on  miscellaneous  account  has 
been  a  shade  quieter.  Hydrate  of  alumina,  purest  quality 
and  high  strength  AW,,  keeps  in  good  average  demand  at 
127.  10s.  to  137.  10s.  per  ton,  free  on  rails  in  large  casks. 
Petroleum  Price  War. 

A  declaration  has  been  made  by  the  Standard  Oil  Co  in 
which  it  is  stated  that  in  view  of  the  enormous  over-produc- 
tion of  crude  oil  the  company  has  inaugurated  a  campaign 
to  increase  the  world's  consumption  of  refined  oil  by  a 
reduction  of  the  price  abroad,  and  especially  in  the  Far  East. 
Without  going  into  details,  this  latest  "  move  "  is  looked 
upon  as  an  attempt  to  crush  out  competition  by  a  system  of 
prolonged  and  heavy  underselling  of  rival  companies,  and 
also  to  prevent  the  formation  of  new  competition.  It  is  stated 
that  the  Standard  Oil  Co.  is  on  this  occasion  acting  on  the 
defensive  against  the  onslaughts  of  European  capital.  The 
fight  will  nrobably  be  the  biggest  in  its  history,  and  the  end, 
it  is  believed,  will  be  an  agreement  or  entente  in  which 
European  oil  interests  will  be  able  to  dictate  terms. 


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English  Peppermint  Oil. 

A  crop  of  peppermint  grown  at  the  outfall  works  of  the 
Cobham  (Surrey)  sewage-farm  has  been  sold  for  75/.,  the  oil 
realising  24s.  per  lb.  [It  may  be  added  that  this  price  is  no 
guide  to  current  market  quotations  for  oil  distilled  from  other 
Surrey-grown  peppermint,  which  is  from  28s.  to  29s.  per 
lb— Ed.] 

Java  Cinchona. 

In  our  issue  of  October  1  (p.  529)  we  mentioned  that  a  small 
committee  had  been  formed  in  Java  to  look  after  the  interests 
of  cinchona-planters.  This  committee  was  appointed  at  a 
meeting  of  planters  held  in  Batavia  on  August  16,  and  it 
consists  of  Heer  Lovink  (Director  of  Agriculture  in  the  Dutch 
East  Indies),  Heer  Dinger  (director  of  -4he  Dutch-Indian 
Banking  Co.),  Heer  Buss  (President  of  the  Dutch  East  Indian 
Chamber  of  Commerce),  Heer  van  Riemsdijk  (Secretary  of 
the  Preanger-Bond),  and  Heer  Leverijn,  of  the  firm  of  Tiede- 
mann  &  Van  Kerchem.  The  committee  proposes  in  the  first 
instance  to  appoint  a  statistician  to  make  an  inquiry 
into  the  present  position  of  every  branch  of  the  cinchona- 
industry,  and  at  the  meeting  in  question  a  substantial  sum 
was  collected  to  defray  the  costs  of  this  inquiry,  which  will 
be  carried  on  under  the  supervision  of  Heer  Lovink. 

The  American  Tariff. 

The  executive  committee  of  the  Manufacturing  Chemists' 
Association  of  the  U.S.A.  conferred  with  Chairman  Emery 
and  Mr.  A.  H.  Sanders,  of  the  Tariff  Board,  on  September  24. 
The  object  of  the  conference  was  to  ascertain  to  what 
extent  manufacturing  chemists  of  the  United  States  would 
co-operate  with  the  Board  in  its  investigation  to  ascer- 
tain the  cost  of  production  in  the  country  of  the  main  items 
in  the  chemical  schedule  of  the  Payne-Aldrich  Tariff  Act. 
A  schedule  has  been  prepared  by  the  Tariff  Board,  and  the 
representatives  of  the  manufacturing  chemists  of  the 
country  were  invited  to  examine  and  criticise  it  and  to  offer 
suggestions  as  to  practical  lines  upon  which  information 
could  be  obtained,  such  information  to  be  held  confidential. 
The  schedule  of  queries  will  be  made  public  in  order  that 
manufacturers  throughout  the  country  interested  in  the  in- 
quiries may  know  just  what  is  desired. 

Sicilian  Citrate  Materials. 

The  Italian  "  Gazzetta  Ufficiale  "  of  July  30  contains  the 
text  of  the  amended  law,  dated  July  17,  providing  for  the 
regulation  of  the  Sicilian  citrus-industry,  official  information 
in  regard  to  which  was  published  in  our  issue  of  August  13 
(p.  260).  It  may  now  be  added  that  the  Government  is  obliged 
by  this  law  to  present  to  Parliament,  not  later  than  Decem- 
ber 31  next,  a  Bill  for  the  reconstruction  of  the  administration 
of  the  "  Camera  Agrumaria."  It  may  also  be  stated  that 
H.M.  Consul  at  Palermo  has  furnished  the  following  par- 
ticulars, taken  from  the  Government  Commission  report, 
recently  issued.  The  Government  Commission  was,  inter  alia, 
appointed  to  advise  as  to  the  mode  of  fixing  the  "  minimum 
price  "  of  valuation  of  deposit  warrants  of  the  "  Camera  Agru- 
maria," as  provided  for  under  the  law  of  July  17  : 

The  average  annual  lemon-crop  is  estimated  at  50,000,000,000 
fruits  (8,000  citrus-fruits  =  about  1  metric  ton),  of  which  50  per 
cent,  is  exported  as  fruit,  40  per  cent,  is  converted  into  citrate 
and  essence,  and  10  per  cent,  is  consumed  at  home  and  pickled. 

Citrate  of  lime  : 

Metric  tons 

Estimated  stock  on  November  30,  1910     ...  6,200 

production,  1910-11    7.000 

sales.  1910-11    5,800 

unsold  surplus,  1910-11   1,200 

Tt  is  suggested  that  the  "minimum  price"  shall  be  fixed 
at  the  same  proportion  of  the  gross  sale-price,  less  duties  to  the 
Chamber  and  cost  of  analysis  and  brokerage,  as  is  the  esti- 
mated quantity  to  be  sold  during  the  season  in  question  of  the 
estimated  production  during  that  season.  Thus  the  gross  sale- 
price  being  at  present  159  lire  per  100  kilos.,  or  152  lire  after 
deduction  of  dues  to  the  Chamber,  etc.,  the  "  minimum  price  " 
for  1910-11  =  5'8°°0*i^  lire  per  100  kilos.  =  (about)  126  lire  per 
100  kilos. 


In  Metric  Prescriptions. — For  two-ounce  mixtures  pre- 
scribed in  one-drachm  doses,  prescribe  as  many  grams  or  c.c. 
of  the  drug  as  are  desired  grains  or  minims  of  the  drug  to 
each  drachm  dose  of  the  mixture.— Dr.  M.  S.  Woodbury. 

Drug-stores  Association  of  Great  Britain. — On  account  of 
the  illness  of  the  President  (Mr.  W.  Huntrods),  members  are 
requested  to  send  all  communications  either  to  the  Treasurer, 
Mr.  J.  B.  Clarkson,  Elland  Road.  Leeds,  or  the  Secretary, 
Mr.  A.  Dobson,  Grove  Cottage,  Morley.  _  Letters  received 
-during  the  past  fortnight  will  be  answered  in  due  course. 


Our  German  Letter. 

(From  a  Special  Correspondent.) 


"A  Young:  Daughter  of  an  apotheker,  possessing  a  hand- 
some trousseau,  who  longs  for  a  happy  home,  and  has  enjoyed 
a  domestic  and  practical  education,  at  present  occupied  in 
a  pharmacy,  wishes  to  be  happily  married  and  to  assist  her 
husband  in  the  business."  So  reads  an  advertisement  in 
the  "  Pharm.  Zeit."  of  October  1,  1910. 

German  Chemical  Industry — At  the  recent  annual 
meeting  of  the  Society  for  the  Protection  of  the  Interests  of 
the  German  Chemical  Industry,  the  General  Secretary  gave 
some  interesting  information  regarding  the  economic  position 
of  Germany's  chemical-industry  during  the  past  year.  On 
examining  the  balance-sheets  of  176  joint-stock  companies, 
working  with  a  nominal  capital  of  30,550,000/.,  and  possessing 
10,200,000?.  reserve  funds,  it  is  found  that  the  average  divi- 
dend paid  out  was  9.35  per  cent.,  against  9.25  in  1908.  The 
profits  of  the  different  companies  vary  considerably,  for  of 
the  176  under  consideration,  thirty-seven  were  worked  at  a 
loss  or  without  profit,  twenty-three  did  not  pay  more  than 
5  per  cent.,  while  138  (or  78.4  per  cent.)  were  not  able  to  pay 
the  average  dividend ;  this  leaves  only  thirty-eight  which 
were  able  to  show  a  really  high  return  on  the  capital  invested. 
The  works  were,  on  the  whole,  kept  fairly  busy ;  the  demand 
for  chemical  products  from  abroad,  and  also  from  the  home 
market,  increased,  especially  during  the  second  half  of  the 
past  year.  However,  increased  competition  has  led  to  a 
decrease  in  prices  in  certain  lines,  so  that  profitable  working 
is  practically  excluded.  Improved  trade-conditions  and  a 
higher  return  was  observed  in  the  production  of  scientific, 
pharmaceutical,  photographic,  and  technical  chemicals,  arti- 
ficial silk,  coal-tar  products,  explosives,  and  indiarubber 
goods.  A  decrease  took  place  in  the  manufacture  of  acids  and 
alkalis,  artificial  manures,  and  in  the  Saxon-Thuringian 
brown-coal  industry. 

Ehrlich's  Hew  Preparation  for  the  treatment  of 
syphilis  seems  to  have  had  a  demoralising  effect  upon  the 
ethics  of  a  portion  of  the  German  medical  profession,  and 
loud  complaints  are  being  made  in  the  medical  Press  about 
the  unprofessional  conduct  of  many  doctors.  In  view  of  the 
peculiar  nature  of  many  of  the  acts  complained  of,  it  is 
interesting  to  note  that  indignant  inquiries  are  being  made 
as  to  the  reason  why  the  medical  courts  of  honour  have  been 
so  long  silent  in  this  matter ;  it  would  appear  as  if  the 
mechanism  for  upholding  an  official  code  of  ethics  had  failed 
in  this  case.  In  the  first  place  it  is  pointed  out  that  the  doctor 
who  makes  use  in  his  practice  of  a  preparation  not  in  general 
use  by  the  whole  of  the  profession  is  liable  for  any  results  that 
may  ensue  to  his  patients,  both  from  the  criminal  as  well 
as  from  the  civil  aspect.  Another  point  is  that  hitherto  it  has 
been  the  custom  to  try  new  preparations  only  in  clinics  or 
hospitals,  and  not  in  private  practice.  But  the  greatest 
grievance  is  that  in  many  cases  the  results  of  this  form  of 
treatment  have  been  published  in  the  lay  Press  before  appear- 
ing in  the  professional  journals,  and  that  medical  men  grant 
interviews  and  discuss  the  subject  openly  with  reporters  of 
daily  papers,  a  course  which  is  severely  condemned.  In  fact, 
more  information  on  the  subject  has  appeared  in  the  daily 
Press  than  in  the  professional  Press,  and  many  utterances 
of  the  leading  authorities  on  this  form  of  treatment  have  been 
given  prominence  in  the  former  long  before  they  appeared  in 
the  latter.  In  the  "  Berliner  Tagblatt  "  recently  there  was  an 
advertisement  stating  that  Dr.  N.  N.  would  be  on  a  certain 
date  in  large  towns  of  Germany  to  give  injections  of  Ehrlich- 
Hata  "  606,"  appointments  to  be  made  beforehand.  It  is 
only  fair  to  state,  however,  that  in  many  cases  patients  have 
been  treated  with  a  preparation  supposed  to  be  the  original 
but  not  supplied  by  Ehrlich.  The  mode  of  distribution  of 
the  preparation  is  also  severely  condemned  in  one  of  the 
leading  medical  journals.  Why  should  one  doctor  receive  a 
sample  which  is  refused  to  another,  is  asked,  and  on  what 
grounds  is  the  distribution  made  ?  It  is  regarded  as  a  very 
regrettable  state  of  affairs  that  a  chosen  few  should  be 
permitted  to  reap  a  rich  harvest  at  the  expense  of  the  re- 
mainder of  their  colleagues,  who  are  not  in  a  position  to  use 
the  remedy.  The  pecuniary  side  of  the  question  is  coming 
in  for  a  good  deal  of  discussion.  At  a  recent  meeting  of 
medical  men  it  was  pointed  out  that  with  the  introduction  of 
Ehrlich's  remedy,  necessitating  one  single_  injection  to  effect 
a  cure,  the  professional  outlook  was  distinctly  bad.  Phar- 
macists, too,  do  not  view  the  new  preparation  with  unmixed 
admiration.  In  the  first  place,  the  reports  as  to_  the  diffi- 
culties of  preparing  the  solution  for  injection  point  to  the 
fact  that  the  manufacturers  will  endeavour  to  place  it  on  the 
market  in  some  form  ready  for  use;  and,  secondly,  if  one 
injection  effects  a  cure,  how  about  prescriptions  for  ung. 
hydrargyri,  pot.  iod.,  and  all  the  synthetics? 


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Memoranda  for  Correspondents. 

All  communications  must  be  accompanied  by  the  names  and 
addresses  of  the  writers,  otherwise  they  are  not  recorded. 

Queries  by  subscribers  on  dispensing,  legal,  and  miscellaneous 
subjects  pertaining  to  pharmacy  and  its  allied  trades  are 
replied  to  in  these  columns,  if  they  are  of  general  interest. 

Letters  submitted  to  the  Editor  for  publication  (if  suitable) 
should  be  written  on  one  side  of  the  paper  only.  Their  publica- 
tion in  the  '  C.  &  D."  does  not  imply  our  agreement  with  the 
opinions  of  the  writers. 


Ether  for  South  Africa. 
Sir, — Your  leader  under  the  above  heading  in  your  issue 
of  September  24  places  importers,  and  therefore  exporters, 
in  at  least  an  anomalous  position.  Your  readers  know 
that  genuine  ether  (ethyl-ether)  varies  in  required  specific 
gravities  from  0.750  to  0.720.  These  specific  gravities  vary 
according  to  the  amount  of  alcohol — or  alcohol  and  water — 
since  water  itself  is  not  sufficiently  soluble  in  ether  (or  vice 
versa,  according  to  some)  to  make  the  difference.  -Now, 
the  ether  in  question  of  sp.  gr.  0.735  certainly  contains 
more  than  three  times  the  maximum  amount  of  alcohol 
permitted  in  Cape  Colony  for  non-dutiability  ;  in  fact,  11  per 
cent,  at  least  of  proof  spirit.  Assuming  a  stronger  spirit 
is  employed,  much  more  alcohol  may  be  mixed.  Squibb's 
tables  have  never  been  upset,  and  they  show  that  for 
mixtures  of  ether  sp.  gr.  0.7189  with  alcohol  0.8201,  at 
sp.  gr.  0.7354  ether  contains  13  per  cent,  of  the  latter.  The 
remedy  should  be  simple — namely,  a  statement  of  the  facts 
to  the  Cape  Colony  Customs  authorities  by  exporters  and 
importers  conjointly. 

Yours  truly, 

Thomas  Tyrer  &  Co.,  Ltd. 

Is  the  Minor  "Worth  the  Trouble  ? 

Sir, — The  impatient  correspondent  who  declares  that  it 
is  not,  since  it  is  possible  to  get  as  good  a  living  without  it, 
may  be  right  from  his  own  point  of  view  ;  but  in  that  case 
it  may  be  suggested  that  he  is  out  of  place  in  a  calling  which 
presupposes  something  more  than  mere  business  smartness 
in  its  followers.  I  do  not,  indeed,  know  of  any  business  in 
which  a  degree  of  knowledge  over  and  above  the  minimum 
required  to  enable  a  man  to  carry  it  on  is  not  an  advantage, 
even  from  a  strictly  business  point  of  view ;  certainly  it  is 
so  in  ours.  A  pharmacist  cannot  easily  know  too  much, 
though  a  good  deal  of  what  he  knows  may  sometimes  seem 
to  bring  him  little  direct  profit.  One  of  the  most  important 
factors  in  any  business  is  position.  Your  correspondent 
will  admit  this  of  geographical  position,  and  it  is  equally 
true  in  other  respects.  In  pharmacy  the  superior  position 
which  a  legal  certificate  of  qualification  gives  is  an  immense 
advantage,  and  the  further  advantage  of  an  education  above 
the  ordinary  is  not  to  be  despised.  I  agree  with  your  corre- 
spondent as  to  the  convenience  of  dividing  the  drug-trade 
in  England  as  it  is  divided  in  the  sister  isle ;  but  if  this 
were  done  I  should  still  choose  to  be  in  the  position  of  top 
dog,  even  if  I  got  no  more  bones  by  being  so.  For  after 
all  we  do  not  live  for  money-gain  alone.  Granted  a  suffi- 
ciency to  ensure  freedom  from  sordid  care,  the  man  who 
is  and  feels  himself  to  be  really  master  of  his  business, 
armed  at  all  points  and  capable  to  the  full  extent  of  his 
opportunities,  is  more  to  be  envied  than  the  man  of  inferior 
acquirements  who  makes  a  few  pounds  more  per  annum 
in  a  more  or  less  irregular  way.  Examinations  do  not 
necessarily  give  us  the  advantages  of  education  and  ability, 
but  they  do  ensure  a  certain  position  ;  and  as  the  law  stands, 
it  is  impossible  for  a  self-respecting  man  to  carry  on  business 
in  the  drug-trade  without  previously  passing  them.  The 
pity  is  that  the  necessity  of  passing  them  makes  the  doing 
so  appear  to  many  people  an  end  in  itself — and  the  only 
end.  While  this  is  so  they  will  only  in  comparatively  rare 
cases,  and  by  a  sort  of  side-wind,  be  really  educative. 

Yours  faithfully, 

Minor  Man.  (49/32.) 


Sir, — In  answer  to  "  Perplexed,"  I  emphatically  say 
"  No,"  and  I  think  my  opinion  is  of  some  value,  as  I  have 
had  twenty  years'  experience  as  a  drug-store  proprietor, 
and  have  succeeded  beyond  all  expectations.  The  average 
chemist's  business  consists  in  handing  over  the  eounter  a 
great  variety  of  packed  goods,  proprietary  articles,  and  a 
thousand  and  one  things  that  require  no  special  skill,  apart 
from  neatness  in  turning  out  the  goods  and  civility  in 
dealing  with  customers.  The  place  for  the  highly  skilled 
chemist  is  the  laboratory,  where  he  can  turn  to  advantage 
and  profit  his  technical  knowledge  and  training.  As  a 
matter  of  fact,  the  finished  article  that  is  turned  out  from 
Bloomsbury  Square  to-day  is  sadly  too  good  for  the  ordinary 
counter  work  of  a  chemist's  shop.  He  is  like  a  fish  out  of 
water ;  his  environment  is  not  conducive  to  good  temper  ; 
and  are  we  to  be  surprised  when  we  hear  that  so  many  of 
these  good  men  are  dissatisfied  with  their  shop  experience  ? 
The  Major  pharmacist,  with  his  optical  qualifications  and 
superior  education,  is  engaged  all  the  day  long  in  a  class 
of  work  that  is  ideal  for  a  drug-store  man,  but  nothing  less 
than  outrageous  for  highly  trained  pharmacists.  The 
drug-store  man  who  has  served  an  apprenticeship  in  an 
ordinary  chemist's  sho23  is  supremely  happy  when  he  owns  a 
small  well-stocked  store.  He  does  not  bother  his  head 
about  the  loss  in  sales  of  a  few  pennyworths  of  laudanum 
and  other  poisons ;  he  is  too  busy  in  making  friends  and 
money,  and  I  venture  to  say  for  the  majority  of  drug-store 
proprietors,  succeeds  in  both.  It  is  astonishing  in  these 
days  how  very  seldom  scheduled  poisons  are  asked  for  in 
drug-stores.  The  public  appear  to  understand  that  poisons 
are  not  to  be  obtained  in  that  class  of  shops.  The  increas- 
ing demand  for  packed  goods,  and  the  fashion  for  side-lines, 
render  it  quite  easy  for  a  drug-store  man  to  make  a  good 
living,  providing  he  can  command  a  little  capital  at  the 
start.  I  would  recommend  "  Perplexed  "  to  make  himself 
familiar  with  drugs  and  chemicals  and  the  general  routine 
of  a  chemist's  business,  and  then  commence  a  drug-store, 
with  a  determination  not  only  to  succeed,  but  in  no 
circumstances  to  infringe  the  Pharmacy  Act. 

Cascara  Sagrada.  (35/26.)- 
"  Ungrammatical "  Speech. 

Sir, — I  was  much  interested  in  "  Cosmologist's  "  letter 
in  your  issueof  September  24,  headed  "  The  Split  Infinitive 
and  other  Things."  I  thoroughly  agree  with  him  that  "  it 
is  not  the  stylists,  but  the  common  people,  who  make  the 
grammar  of  a  country."  Just  as  we  have  practically  ceased 
to  employ  the  second  person  singular  in  ordinary  conversa- 
tion, soi  also  are  many  other  words  and  constructions  falling 
into  disuse;  for  instance,  how  often  is  the  subjunctive 
mood  used  nowadays  ?  Do  not  nine  persons  out  of  ten 
say,  "  If  that  is  so,"  instead  of  "  If  that  be  so"  !  Then, 
in  the  last  line  of  the  vesper  hymn,  "  Till  morning  light 
appears"  should  really  grammatically  be  "Till  morning  light 
appear"  (if  we  change  "all  our  fears"  in  the  second  line 
into  "every  fear,"  the  rhyme  is  preserved).  Again,  how 
many  so-called  "educated"  people,  after  knocking  at 
the  door  of  a  room  for  admittance  and  hearing  the  question 
"Who  is  there?"  will  reply  "It's  me"!  How  often  do 
we  hear  such  a  sentence  as  "  he  is  older  than  me  "  !  I  there- 
fore contend  that  these  cases  of  so-called  ungrammatical 
use  of  certain  words  should  really  be  justified,  in  that 
the  greater  percentage  of  persons  employ  them  in  this 
manner  in  conversation;  but,  in  suggesting  this,  perhaps 
I  am  treading  on  dangerous  ground.  In  my  opinion  we 
are  rapidly  beginning  to  feel  the  necessity  of  having  a  com- 
mittee for  the  standardisation  of  the  English  language, 
similar  to  those  existing  in  Germany  and  in  one  or  two 
other  countries.  Yours  faithfully, 

Grammar.  (48/40.) 


Subscribers'  Symposium. 

(Information  Solicited  or  Supplied.) 


Like  Wine. 

"  The  C.  &  D.  is  fine  value.    Like  wine,  it  improves  with 
age,"  writes  a  subscriber  when  sending  his  10s.  (221/4.) 
Pharmacy  in  Excclsis? 

A  Midland  Chemist  writes  :  "  What  is  pharmacy  coming  to 
locally  ?    Within  the  last  few  days  two  drug-stores  have  been 


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AND  DRUGGIST 


67 


advertised  in  the  '  Birmingham  Mail  ' — (1)  fixtures  and 
stock  5^.,  (2)  fixtures  and  stock  15?.  The  returns  and  profits 
are  not  mentioned." 

Coloured  Carboys. 
F.  N.  (51/53)  wants  the  latest  information  regarding  colours 
for  carboys — namely,  green,  red,  and  blue.  There  is  a  good 
ideal  of  information  about  these  in  "  Pharmaceutical  For- 
mulas," but  we  shall  be  glad  to  have  anything  fresh  from  our 
readers. 

Why  do  Powders  Stick  to  Bottles? 
T  recently  had  occasion  to  change  the  gold  label  of  a  shop- 
round  that  for  several  years  had  been  used  for  pulv.  curcumee. 
The  inside  of  the  bottle  was  coated  with  the  yellow  powder. 
On  scraping  off  the  gold  label  I  was  surprised  to  find  that  no 
powder  at  all  had  adhered  to  the  inner  surface  which  the 
label  had  covered.  I  wonder  whether  any  of  your  corre- 
spondents can  explain  why  ? — C.  L.  (52/29.) 

Salad-dressing. 


Salt   

...  1 

oz. 

Mustard   

2 

oz. 

"Eggs  _  ...   

...  8 

Nestle's  milk  (6d.  tins)  ... 

...  2 

Lucca  oil   

...  16 

oz. 

Vinegar   

...  30 

oz. 

Mix  in  order  as  written. 
T  note  that  "  A.  G.  L."  requires  a  recipe  for  a  good  salad- 
dressing.    I  can  recommend  the  above  with  confidence,  as  I 
have  tried  many  formula?,  and  find  this  far  the  best..    It  keeps 
-almost  indefinitely. — A.  H.  Cartwright. 

A  C 'ompetition  Ode. 

Competition  day  by  day, 
•Competition  all  the  way ; 
Competitions  by  the  score, 
Competition  more  and  more ; 
'Competition  for  the  prizes, 
Competitions  of  all  sizes; 
'Competition  in  our  trade, 
Competition  to  our  aid ; 
■Competition  to  be  seen, 
'Competition  sharp  and  keen ; 
Competition  with  the  stores, 
Competition  one  abhors ; 
Competition  everywhere, 
But  I  read  the  C.  &  D.,  so  I  don't  care. 

A.  J.  H.  (213/5.) 


Dispensing  Notes. 

Most  dispensing  problems  are  dealt  with  in  "The  Art  of  Dis- 
pensing," but  we  are  always  pleased  to  get  fre;h  ones  for 
solution,  and  to  receive  the  opinions  of  readers  on  the  points 
.discussed. 


Lanoline  Lotion. 

Apprentice  (50/12)  suggests  that  "  B.  M.  J.'s  "  difficulty  is 
■not  a  difficulty  at  all,  and  that  the  prescriber  meant  an  oint- 
ment, with  the  distilled  water  to  dissolve  the  salts  and  there- 
after to  be  mixed  with  an  ounce  of  lanoline. 

Butyl-chloral  and  Camphor. 

Sir, — I  am  rather  surprised  to  find  no  specific  reference  to 
"  butyl-chloral  hydrate  in  combination  with  camphor  "  in 
the  usual  text-books.  E.g.,  the  following  recipe  is  brought  in 
with  a  request  to  have  the  pills  as  soon  as  possible  : 

Butyl-chloral  hydr   gr.  ij. 

Camphor.      ...       ...       ...       ...    gr.  j. 

Ext.  gelsem.  ale  gr.  3 

Ft.  pil.    Mitte  xij. 

I  should  like  to  know  how  your  readers  would  tackle  this. 
I  have  made  them  several  times,  and  my  experience  is  as 
follows  :  Massed  with  a  very  small  quantity  of  tragacanth 
and  glycerin  excipient,  the  pills  were  very  good  to  look  at, 
being  quite  firm.  In  twelve  hours  or  less  they  were  in  a  semi- 
fluid state,  when  they  were  again  massed  with  simple 
liquorice-powder.  The  second  lot  was  worked  up  in  the 
mortar  with  a  drop  or  two  of  S.  V.R.  with  the  idea  of  hastening 
the  change  ;  but  as  no  change  was  forthcoming,  a  mass  was 
again  made  with  tragacanth-paste.  This  time  the  pills  stood 
well,  though  very  hygroscopic  for  several  days.  In  both 
cases  the  pills  dry  after  a  few  days,  and  disintegrate  readily 
in  warm  water ;  but  those  made  with  a  little  S.V.R.  and 
tragacanth-paste  are  decidedly  the  better. 

I  am,  etc., 

Midland.  (52/51). 


Legal  Queries. 

Consult  tllS  legal  information  in  "  The  Chemists' and  Druggists' 
Diary,"  1910,  before  writing  about  your  difficulty. 


It.  (53/44).— By  Section  3  of  the  Dentists  Act,  legally  quali- 
fied medical  practitioners  may  practise  as  dentists  and  de- 
scribe themselves  as  such. 

Galen  (52/42). — The  minimum  rate  for  wine-licences  is 
21.  10s.  The  assessment  depends  upon  the  rental,  and  not 
upon  the  stock  carried  by  the  chemist. 

Herb  (53/25). — Homoeopathic  pilules  or  tinctures  of  aconite, 
arsenic,  belladonna,  nux  vomica,  or  any  other  scheduled 
poison  come  within  the  Acts  subject  to  the  ruling  "  De  mini- 
mus non  curat  lex."  Whether  that  applies  in  homoeopathic 
medicines  we  do  not  know. 

S.  C.  S.  (49/9). — Registered  chemists  may  describe  their 
shops  as  "  Pharmacy."  The  object  of  the  case  which  you 
have  in  mind  was  to  restrict  the  use  of  the  word  to  the  shops 
of  pharmaceutical  chemists;  but  the  High  Court  decided 
against  that,  and  thus  made  the  word  free  to  everybody. 

Maximo  (221/4). — (1)  Ammonium  sulphocyanide  is  not  a 
scheduled  poison  in  Great  Britain.  (2)  There  has  been  a 
conviction  under  Section  15  of  the  Pharmacy  Act  of  a  person 
who  supplied  a  customer  with  a  scheduled  poison  and  did  not 
charge  for  it.  The  offence  is  selling  or  retailing,  etc.,  and 
giving  away  poison  appears  to  be  retailing.  (3)  None  but  a 
registered  chemist  or  company  may  lawfully  use  the  title 
"  Druggist  "  on  a  retail  shop. 

Kim  (211/27). — Wherever  the  title  "Chemist"  is  used  or 
exhibited  in  a  retail  shop,  the  owner  of  the  shop,  if  an 
individual,  must  be  a  registered  chemist  and  must  per- 
sonally superintend  it  or  employ  a  registered  chemist  to  do 
so.  If  poisons  are  sold  in  the  shop,  it  is  "  kept  open 
for  the  sale  of  poisons  "  within  the  meaning  of  the  1868  Act, 
and  must  be  personally  managed  by  the  proprietor  or  a 
registered  chemist.  The  proprietor  may  only  manage  one 
shop.  If  he  has  a  branch  of  the  business  at  another  shop,  he 
can  only  carry  it  on  with  a  qualified  assistant. 

A.  B.  C.  (50/60).— (1)  The  interest  on  an  overdraft  from  the 
bank  should  be  entered  in  the  income-tax  return  as  a  charge 
upon  the  profits  of  the  business.  If  this  has  not  been  done 
when  the  notice  of  assessment  is  received,  write  to  the  sur- 
veyor of  taxes  about  it  within  ten  days  of  the  receipt  of  the 
notice.  (2)  Samples  of  patent  medicines  may  not  be  sold  at 
bazaars  unstamped  nor  without  a  licence  ;  so  what  is  the  good 
of  bothering  the  manufacturers?  (3)  Metropolitan  banks 
generally  require  a  minimum  balance  of  501.  on  current 
accounts,  or  charge  an  annual  fee.  In  opening  accounts,  tho 
recommendations  of  two  persons  are  required. 


Miscellaneous  Inquiries. 

As  we  co  not  in  this  section  repeat  information  given  during  tn« 
past  twelve  months,  inquirers  should  refer  to  the  copies 
mentioned.  Back  numbers  for  the  past  five  years  can  generally 
be  obtained  from  our  office  at  the  published  prices. 


W.  W.  (44/4).— Cod-liver  Oil  Emulsion.— For  the  50-per: 
cent,  emulsion  in  which  Irish-moss  mucilage  is  used  the 
following  method  is  employed  : 

Irish  moss   3j. 

Water  ...      ...   3vj. 

Soak  for  an  hour,  then  boil  for  half  an  hour  ;  make  up  to 
5  oz.  and  strain.    Add — 

Glycerin   3ij. 

Rectified  spirit   3j. 

Essential  oil  of  almonds   my._ 

Cinnamon  oil   rriii j. 

The  product  is  then  mixed  with  an  equal  amount  of  cod- 
liver  oil,  and  the  emulsion  made  by  means  of  an  egg-whisk 
geared  to  make  1,200  revolutions  a  minute. 

/.  0.  (25/64).— (1)  Tooth-powder.— The  basis  of  this  is  pre- 
cipitated chalk  with  some  powdered  soap,  but  the  outstanding 
feature  of  the  powder  is  the  perfume — a  mixture  of  menthol 
and  wintergreen  oil.  (2)  Quinine  Pessaries.— These  contain 
from  3  to  5  grains  of  quinine  hydrochloride  in  cocoa-butter, 
the  size  being  usually  60  grains. 

J.  Y.  Z.  (13/10). — The  Veterinary  Liquid  used  for  inflam- 
matory diseases  contains  Iiq.  ammon.  acet.,  a  veterinary  form 
of  sp.  ammon.  arom.,  and  a  red  colouring-matter.  You  did 
not  give  us  sufficient  details  of  the  sample  to  encourage  us  to 
investigate  it  further. 


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03 


THE  CHEMIST  AND  DEUGGIST 


October  8,  1910 


A.  T.  B.  (42/40).—  Pig-powders.—  The  following  formula  is 
based  on  an  examination  of  your  sample  : 


Pulv.  potass,  nitratis    .sviij. 

Pulv.  curcumse    Sviij. 

Pulv.  anisi    Svj. 

Pulv.  fcenugreeci    5x. , 

Pulv.  glycyrrh   3viij. 


Dose  :  From  one  dessertspoonful  to  a  tablespoonful. 

Butch  Pink  (35/32).— The  "  Petrifying  "  liquid  used  for 
adding  to  distemper  seems  to  be  a  linseed-oil  emulsion  made 
with  caseia. 

Cheshire  (45/13). — Metol-Quinol  Developer. — The  diluted 
developer  does  not  keep.  Any  preservative,  such  as  sodium 
sulphite  or  potassium  metasulphite,  would  need  to  be  added 
in  an  amount  which  would  interfere  with  the  developing 
properties  of  the  solution. 

E.  M.  P.  (26/1).— Nasal  Sphat: 

Creosote    5  minims 

Eucalyptus  oil   ^  15  minims 

Terebene   10  minims 

Menthol        ...    ...  10  grains 

Cinnamon  oil    5  minims 

Liquid  paraffin  to   1  oz. 

Mix.    Use  with  an  atomiser. 

O.  P.  E.  (34/71). — Embroidery-pattern  Mabker. — This  is  a 
mixture  of  powdered  resin,  ultramarine,  and  starch.  The 
purpose  of  the  resin  is  to  fix  the  pattern  when  a  hot  iron  is 
passed  over  the  powder  that  has  escaped  through  the  per- 
forated pattern. 

W.  P.  (29/29).— Essence  of  Coffee.— The  following  is  from 
"  Pharmaceutical  Formulas  "  : 

Freshly  roasted  and  ground  coffee  2  lb. 
Freshly    roasted     and  ground 

chicory   2  lb. 

Boiling  water   1  gal. 

Mix,  cover  and  keep  warm  for  two  hours,  strain,  press,  and 
add  20  gr.  of  salicylic  acid  to  the  liquor,  which  set  aside. 
Reinfuse  the  marc  in  a  gallon  of  boiling  water  for  an  hour, 
press  and  strain.  Evaporate  this  liquor  to  make  6  pints  with 
the  reserve.  Dissolve  in  it  4  lb.  of  sugar.  If  the  coffee  and 
chicory  were  not  highly  roasted,  the  colour  of  the  essence 
may  be  darkened  by  adding  caramel. 

Nemo  (30/69). — Silver-polishing  Paste. — A  mixture  .of 
jewellers'  rouge  and  vaseline  would  represent  your  sample. 
The  rouge  must  be  of  the  finest  quality  for  silver-cleaning, 
and  the  grinding  with  vaseline  must  be  complete. 

F.  c£  C.  (24/69).— (1)  There  is  no  chemical  method  of  pre- 
venting ice  from  melting.  (2)  Depilatory. — See  C.  &  Z>., 
September  24,  p.  497. 

C.  &  Co.  (38/54). — Book  on  Jam-making. — We  do  not  think 
there  is  any  book  published  devoted  to  this  subject.  It  is 
dealt  with  in  cookery-books  and  in  Skuse's  "  Complete  Con- 
fectioner "  (W.  J.  Bush  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  7s.  6d.). 

Dr.  B.  (Toulouse)  (15/1).— There  is  no  book  in  the  English 
language  on  physics  as  applied  to  pharmacy. 

W.  H.  L.  (37/26).—Duplicator  Ink.— The  following  is  the 
type  of  ink  which  is  intended  by  this  title  : 

Methyl  green    4  parts 

Distilled  water   10  parts 

Acetic  acid  10  parts 

Alcohol   10  parts 

Glycerin   70  parts 

Mix. 

Nemo  (38/44). — Lavender-water. — Ypu  should  read  the 
remarks  on  lavender-water  given  in  "  Pharmaceutical 
Formulas,"  in  which  the  following  points  are  noted  : 

Use  well-matured  English  oil  of  lavender — five  years 
old  at  least 

The  simplest  lavender-waters  are  the  best. 

Ambergris  or  civet  or  musk  is  essential  for  bringing  out 
the  fine  odour  of  lavender. 

Keep  the  water  as  long  as  possible  before  filtering — using 
dry  grey  paper  only. 

Aq.  Lavand.  (51/72). — These  observations  solve  your  diffi- 
culty.   A  little  ambergris,  as  well  as  musk,  is  an  advantage. 

W.  O.  (39/30). — (1)  The  tasteless  cayenne  pepper  used  as  a 
colour-feed  for  canaries  is  proEably  a  selected  sample — they 
vary  considerably.  (2)  The  seltzogene-leak  could  be  mended 
by  pouring  in  some  plaster  of  Paris  mixed  with  water  to  the 
consistency  of  a  thick  cream. 


G.  M.  W.  (25/14). — We  do  not  know  the  composition  of  the 
two  proprietary  articles  you  mention. 

/.  0.  0.  (29/18). — The  Window-cleaning  Preparation  is 
perhaps  whiting  and  ammonia,  but  your  inquiry  does  not 
give  sufficient  details. 

Out  is  (45/22). — Removing  Tattoo-marks. — Of  the  several 
methods  of  doing  this  the  salicylic-acid  one  is  most  recent. 
It  was  described  in  the  C.  &  D.,  September  28,  1907,  p.  515. 
Other  processes  are  with  tannin  and  silver  nitrate  (C.  &  D., 
July  28,  1906,  p.  195),  with  nitric  acid  ("  Pharmaceutical 
Formulas,"  p.  527),  and  glycerin  of  papain  (C.  &  D.,  April  8, 
1899,  p.  575). 

J.  H.  (23/13). — The  residue  left  after  pressing  out  the  oil 
from  coconut  kernels  is  sold  for  cattle-feeding,  but  the  desic- 
cated coconut  used  in  cooking  and  confectionery  is  prepared 
by  drying  the  cut-up  kernels  without  previously  extracting 
the  oil. 

B.  B.  (Calcutta)  (43/7).— Books  on  Agriculture  and  Horti- 
culture.— Consult  the  indices  of  the  last  few  volumes  of  the 
C.  &  D. 

C.  G.  B.  (39/11). — Skin-cream. — This  appears  to  be  one  of 
the  casein-creams  about  which  full  particulars  were  given  in 
a  series  of  four  articles  in  this  Journal  during  April  1909. 

L.  W.  J.  (210/30).— Liquid  Laundry-blue: 

1.  Prussian  blue    5  lb. 

Oxalic  acid   1  oz. 

Water   2  gals. 

Mix  the  Prussian  blue  and  acid  with  5  gal.  of  boiling  water, 
and  when  cold  make  up  to  volume  and  strain. 

2.  Aniline  blue  4  oz. 

Water    3  gals. 

Dissolve. 

T>.  N.  B.  (Poona)  (28/73).— (1)  Book  on  Enamelling  Iron.— 
Griinwald's  "  Theory  and  Practice  of  Enamelling  on  Iron 
and  Steel"  (Griffin,"  1909).  (2)  Muspratt's  Chemistry;  the 
English  edition  is  out  of  print,  but  the  German  edition,  by 
Stohmann,  Kerl  and  Bunte,  in  about  eight  volumes,  is  pub- 
lished by  Viewig  &  Son,  Brunswick.  (3)  Seger's  "  Collected 
Writings  on  Ceramics  "  is  published  by  Scott,  Greenwood  & 
Co.  The  book  is  in  two  volumes,  30s.  each.  The  same  pub- 
lishers produce  Bourry's  "  Treatise  on  Ceramic  Industries  " 
(22s.).  (4)  Books  on  the  Dairy.— See  C.  (£•  D .,  September  24, 
p.  497.  (5)  Books  on  Horse  and  Cattle  Breeding.— Hum- 
frey's  "  Horse  Breeding  and  Rearing  in  India  "  (Thacker, 
Is.^bd.);  Gilbey's  "Horse-breeding  in  England  and  India" 
(Vinton,  2s.):  Shaw's  "Animal-breeding"  (Paul,  7s.  6(7.) ; 
Sheldon  and  Long's  "  Best  Breeds  of  British  Stock  " 
(Thacker,  2s.  6d.)  :  "  Complete  Grazier  and  Farmer's  and 
Cattle-breeder's  Assistant"  (Lockwood,  31s.  6d.).  (5)  Scien- 
tific Periodicals.—"  Nature,"  dd.  weekly  (Macmillan) ; 
"Science  Abstracts"  (Spon) :  "Scientific  American"  (361 
Broadway,  New  York).  (6)  Books  on  Dentistry.— See 
C.  &  D.,  September  17,  p.  460.  (7)  "  The  Chemist-Optician 
(Office  of  The  Chemist  and  Druggist,  4s.). 

Lupuline  (46/8).— It  is  not  the  purpose  of  this  column  to 
furnish  imitations  of  proprietary  articles. 

Patho  (49/72).— Mercuric  Iodide  dissolves  in  solution  of 
potassium  iodide  because  a  soluble  double  salt  is  formed. 
Potassium  bromide  is  useless  for  this  purpose. 


Retrospect  of  Fifty  Years  Ago. 

Reprints  Irom  "The  Chemist  and  Druggist,"  October  is,  i860.. 


Dispensing  for  Doctors. 

The  following  is  quoted  from  a  letter  communicated  to 
"  The  Lancet  "  by  "  A  Physician  "  :  "  Why  is  it  that  we  haye> 
no  '  General  Metropolitan  Dispensing  Company,  with 
branches  in  all  parts  of  London,  conducting  dispensing  busi- 
ness only,  and  that  in  such  a  manner  and  at  such  a  price  as 
would  ensure  success?  Few  of  our  already  overworked 
general  practitioners  would  continue  to  dispense  their  own 
drugs  if  they  could  have  it  done  for  them  at  a  moderate  rate. 
And  supposing  such  a  company  to  charge  Id.,  6d.,  9d.,  Is., 
etc  ,  for  each  prescription,  the  actual  cost  of  the  manufacture 
to  exceed  the  next  lower  charge,  I  feel  convinced  not  only 
that  the  generality  of  medical  men  would  support  the  under- 
taking, but  also,  from  the  large  amount  of  business  that  would 
be  done,  that  the  shareholder  would  reap  a  very  handsome 
dividend.  Stamps  might  be  issued  by  the  company,  to  be 
affixed  to  t,ne  prescription  by  the  medical  attendant,  like  our 
postage  labels,  such  prescription  to  be  made  once  only  free 
of  charge." 


Index  Folio  570 


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xxxi 


Exchange  Column— Bargains. 

TERMS. 

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No  Advertisement  inserted  for  less  than  6d. 


FOR  DISPOSAL. 


BOOKS  AND  PERIODICALS. 

MARTIN  DALE'S  Pharmacopoeia,  13th  edition;  what  offers?  222/17, 
Office  of  this  Paper. 

MARTIN  DALE,  12th  edition,  gcod  as  new;  what  cffers?  RoaiNsbN, 
•    Chemist,  Exchange  Station,  Liverpool. 

PRELIMINARY  books,  various,  new  condition  ;  75  per  cent,  off  pub- 
lished prices;  list  sent.    Taylor,  c/o  Gibbs,  TTptcn-on-Severn. 

DENTAL. 

LEPPER'S  branch  practice  chair;  Parson-Shaw  dental  engine,  with 
R.A.  attachment;  Maw's  plated  tooth-forceps;  all  perfect  and 
in.  good  condition  ;  cheap ;  correspondence  invited.  Griffiths, 
Avenue  Road,  Swindon. 

PROPRIETARY  ARTICLES. 

CASE  25  bottles  Cowan's  bitter  waters;  what  offers?  Hunt,  Albert 
Road,  Stechford. 

MALTO-PEPTONE  ( Macquaire,  Paris);  offers  wanted  for  about 
1  cwt.    Letters,  "  Mamo,"  199  Kennington  Road,  S.E. 

SHARES. 

SHARES  for  Sale.    See  p.  xxx. 

SHARES. — 25  preference  shares,  guaranteed  6  per  cent. ;  what  offers? 
Claeke,"  Chemist,  Surbiton  Hill. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

SIX  lung  bells;  perfect  condition;  what  offers?    "  G.,"  261  London 

Road,  St.  Leonards. 
FOR  disposal,  1  Kodak  developing-box ;  10  Imper.  plates  ;  18  Hogyes' 

socks.    224/2,  Office  of  this  Paper. 
MAW'S  water-bed,  72  by  36,  only  used  once;  cost  £8  lCs. ;  what 

offers?    Tonus,  280  Upper  Richmond  Road,  Putney. 
BALANCE,  in  glass  case,  cost  £3  3s.  recently,  what  offers?    8  oz. 

santonine,  20«. ;   8  oz.  salicine,  Zs.    Whiiehouse,  Pharmacist, 

Workington. 

SOUTHALL'S   materia-medica  specimens,   complete  2-guinea  set; 

Minor  and  Preliminary  text-books,  etc.  Apply,  Natlor,  Hipper 

Street,  Chesterfie.ld. 
TWO  excellent  life-like  plaster  models  to  advertise  cough  remedy; 

first-rate    window    draw;    16s.    each;    seen   by  appointment. 

"  Chemist,"  3  Soudan  Road,  Battersea. 
LARGE  handsome  gilt  outside  mortar  and  pestle,  for  gas,  with 

3  red  bull's  eyes;  4  2-gal.  pear  carboys;  about  10  doz.  26-oz. 

syphons,  no  name,  with  boxes;  what  offers?    Whitelaw,  Cupar, 

N.B. 

MANUFACTURER'S  Clearing  Line.— 3  gross  best  Velpeau  quality 
crepe  bandages,  slightly  defective  manufacture,  4s.  doz.  assorted; 
widths,  13  in.  to  4  in.,  worth  treble;  samples  stamp.  222/1,  Office 
of  this  Paper. 


BAKER'S  emulsion  machine,  1J  gal.,  equal  to  new,  price  37s.  (id. ; 
Baker's  sifting  and  mixing  machine,  7s.  td.  ;  screw  tincture- 
press,  quart,  5s.  td. ;  plated  bougie  mould  for  12,  new,  lCs. ; 
Clark's  Syphon  gas  stove,  cost  £4,  price  30s. ;  ebonised  mahogany 
sloping  counter-case,  21  by  18  by  7,  with  3  trays,  10?. ;  8  Ameri- 
can automatic  shading  .pens,  8  marking  ditto,  with  book  on 
showeard  designing,  8s.    223/4,  Office  of  this  Paper. 


WANTED. 


IRON  bins,  with  covers,  for  seeds.  Price  and  size,  DrCK,  Chemist, 
Cardiff. 

TWO  or  three  old-fashioned  pear-shaped  carboys,  4  to  4J  ft.  high. 

38  Chandos  Street,  W. 
12-FT.  front  counter-,  6-ft.  dispensing  counter.    Particulars  to  H. 

Logsdail,  High  Street,  King's  Lynn. 
PEREIRA'S  "  Materia  Medica,"  Quain's  "  Anatomy,"  9th  edition  ; 

must  be  in  good  condition.   Wilson,  Town  Hall,  Corbridge. 
FOUR  carboys,  height  about  30  in.  to  top  of  stoppers  ;  second-hand 

dispensing-screen,  counter  complete.    "  R.  B.,"  268  Oxford  Road, 
.  Reading. 

"THE  CHEMIST  AND  DRUGGIST,"  April  24,  1909  ;  4(7.  offered  for 
clean,  perfect  copies  sent  flat  {id.  postage)  to  "  S.  B.,"  Office  of 
this  Paper. 

OPTICAL  books ;  Minor,  Major,  Chemists'  books ;  send  prepaid  for 
valuation ;  cash  offers  per  return.  Goweb,  Bookseller,  Waterloo, 
Liverpool. 

REQUIRED,  cheap,  2  sets  of  3  4-ft.  glass  shelves,  bevelled  edgc3, 
4  standards  and  brackets  for  same,  5-6  high.  Price  to  Sheard, 
Morley. 


TO  BUYERS  AND  SELLERS. 

We  take  every  care  to  ensure  that  proprietary  and  other 
goods  advertised  in  this  column.-a're  genuine  surplus  stock 
of  reputable  persons  in  business,  and  are  compelled  to 
refuse  advertisements  sent  by  those  who,  when  occasion 
requires,  decline  to  satisfy  reasonable  inquiries  as  to  their 
bona-fides. 

We  again  call  the  attention  of  those  who  use  this  column 
far  the  sale  or  purchase  of  goods  to  the  desirability  of  using 
our  Deposit  System.  Some  forward  goods  before  they 
receive  money  for  them,  and  others  forward  money  to 
advertisers  before  they  have  even  seen  the  goods.  Dis- 
appointment in  such  circumstances  is  bound  to  happen  now 
and  then,  and  it  is  to  prevent  this,  as  well  as  to  check  fraud, 
that  our  Deposit  System  was  instituted. 

The  buyer  sends  us  the  money  for  the  goods,  and  when  we 
hear  from  him  that  they  are  satisfactory,  and  not  till  then, 
we  hand  over  the  money  to  the  seller.  A  commission  of 
6d.  is  charged  by  us  on  any  transaction  of  3i.  or  less,  and 
Is.  if  above  that  amount.  The  commission  is  payable  by 
the  buyer,  and  should  be  included  in  the  money  sent  to  us. 
All  Cheques  and  Postal  Orders  should  be  made  payable  to 
"  Edward  Halse,"  and  crossed  "  Martin's  Bank,  Ltd." 


THE  CHEMIST  AND  DRUGGIST  SUPPLEMENT 


October  8,  1910 


Coming  Events* 

This  Section  of  the  "C.  &  D."  is  reserved  for  advance  notices 
of  meetings  or  other  events  which  are  sent  to  the  Editor  by- 
Wednesday  of  the  week  before  the  meetings,  etc.,  occur. 


Monday,  October  10. 

Dublin  Retail  Drug  Association,  67  Mount  Street,  Dublin,  at 
8  P.M.    Annual  meeting. 

Tuesday,  October  11. 

Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  17  Bloornsbury 
Square,' London,  W.C.,  at  8  p.m.  First  evening  meeting. 
Paper  on  "  The  Fixed  Oils,  Fats,  and  Waxes  of  the 
British  Pharmacopoeia,"  bv  Mr.  E.  W.  Lucas,  F.I.C., 
F.C.S.,  and  Mr.  F.  C.  J.  Bird. 

Wednesday,  October  12. 

Chemists'  and  Druggists'  Society  of  Ireland,  Shaftesbury 
Cafe,  Belfast.  Whist-drive,  by  invitation  of  the  Presi- 
dent, Mr.  Wm.  Haslett. 

Manchester  Pharmaceutical  Association,  Victoria  Hotel, 
Deansgate,  Manchester,  at  6.45  p.m.  Dinner  and  smoking- 
concert.  Tickets  (4s.  6d.  each)  from  Mr.  Jas.  Grier,  Hon. 
Secretary,  Pharmaceutical  Department,  University  of 
Manchester. 

Neivcastle-on-Tyne  Pharmacists'  Association,  Hotel  Metro- 
pole,  Clayton  Street  West,  Newcastle,  at  8  p.m.  Annual 
meeting. 

Thursday,  October  13. 

West  Ham  Association  of  Pharmacists,  Earlham  Hall, 
Forest  Gate,  London,  E.,  at  7.45  p.m.  Whist-drive. 
Tickets,  including  light  refreshment'  (single  2s.  bd., 
double  4s.  bd.),  from  Mr.  J.  E.  Evans,  Hon.  Secretary, 
69  Leytonstone  Road,  E. 


The  annual  dinner  of  the  Poi-tsmouth  Pharmacists'  Associa- 
tion will  be  held  on  October  26.  Messrs.  Hobbs  and  Neather- 
coat,  pharmaceutical  councillors,  have  promised  to  attend. 

The  annual  dinner  of  the  Bournemouth  Pharmaceutical 
Association  will  be  held  at  the  Gervis  Hall  Restaurant  on 
October  19.  Tickets  (5s.  each)  from  Mr.  W.  A.  Bingham, 
Hon.  Secretary,  58  Charminster  Road. 

Croydon  and  District  Pharmacists'  Association. — The 
annual  dinner  will  be  held  at  the  Cafe  Monico,  Piccadilly 
Circus,  London,  W.,  on  October  26,  at  7.45  p.m.  Tickets  (5s. 
each)  may  be  had  from  the  Hon.  Secretaries  (Mr.  S.  A.  Noble, 
Selsdon  Road,  South  Croydon,  and  Mr.  C.  Dickinson, 
119  South  End). 

The  first  meeting  this  session  of  the  London  Branch  of  the 
National  Union  of  Assistant  Pharmacists  will  be  held  at  the 
St.  James  Tavern,  Broadway,  Westminster,  London,  S.W., 
on  October  20,  at  8.30  p.m.  Mr.  F.  Bullen,  85  Lydhurst 
Avenue,  Streatham,  S.W.,  is  the  Hon.  Secretary. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Western  Chemists'  Association,  to  be 
held  at  the  Restaurant  Frascati,  Oxford  Street,  London,  W., 
on  October  19,  at  9  p.m.,  Mr.  Edmund  White,  B.Sc,  F.I.C., 
has  promised  to  read  a  paper  on  his  "Experiences  at  the 
Tenth  International  Congress  of  Pharmacy,"  held  at  Brussels 
recently. 

At  the  opening  meeting  of  the  Glasgow  and  West  of  Scot- 
land Chemists'  Association,  which  will  be  held  at  the  Regent 
Tea  Rooms,  Glasgow,  on  October  20,  Dr.  Ralph  Stockman, 
Professor  of  Materia  Medica  at  the  University  of  Glasgow, 
has  consented  to  read  an  address.  The  arrangements  for  the 
session  are  well  in  hand,  and  a  syllabus  of  the  meetings  will 
be  issued  in  due  course. 


Trade-marks  Applied  For. 

Objections  to  the  registration  of  any  of  the  undermentioned 
applications  must  be  stated  on  Form  T.M.  No.  7  (obtain- 
able at  Money  Order  Offices  for  £1)  and  lodged  with 
Mr.  Temple  Franks,  Comptroller-General,  Patents  Office, 
as  Southampton  Buildings,  Chancery  Lane,  London,  W.C., 
within  one  month  of  the  dates  mentioned. 

The  figures  in  parentheses  refer  to  the  classes  in  which  the  marks 
are  desired. 


{From  the  "  Trade-marks  Journal,"  September  28,  1910.) 

"  Laccillia  "  ;  for  chemicals  (1  and  3),  and  for  food-substances 
(42).  By  Aplin  &  Barrett,  Ltd.,  Yeovil,  Som.  326,167/8/9. 

"  Scout  " ;  for  fly-catchers  (2).  By  J.  N.  Dean,  42  High 
Street,  Stockport.  326,006. 

"  Maxsol  "  ;  for  disinfectants  (2).  Bv  Maxsol,  Ltd.,  1  Garratt 
Green,  Tooting,  London,  S.W.    326,010.  ' 


Picture  of  coach  and  four  on  scroll ;  for  hoof  oil  (2).  By  Lane 
Bros.,  77  Tradescant  Road,  South  Lambeth,  London, 
S.E.  326,297. 

"The  Davins,"  and  device  of  stag's  head;  for  medicinal 
chemicals  (3),  various  goods  (42).  By  Davies,  Sons  &  Co., 
73-75  Bridge  Street,  Derby.    324,765,  324,767. 

"  Regyl,"  and  label  device  ;  for  medicinal  tablets  (3).  By  G. 
Fievet,  53  Rue  Reaumur,  Paris.  323,378. 

"  G™?A,"  '■   for  a11  £°ods  <3)-    %  J-  Cockshutt  and  T. 

Mitchell,  68  Highfield  Street,  Liverpool.  325,022. 
"  ^eurasthenol  "  ;  for  a  medicine  (3).    By  Charles  Gordon, 

2  Ellercroft  Road,  Bradford.  325,434. 
"  Adalin  "  ;  for  medicinal  chemicals  (3).    By  Bayer  Co  ,  Ltd 

20  Booth  Street,  Manchester.  325,352. 
"Droit  Bath-salt";  for  bath-salt  (3).    By  Droit  Bath-salt 

Co.,  10  Ferry  Road,  Teddington.  325,628. 
Device;  for  pills  and  salves  (3).    By  Mary  Sharpe,  7  Bright. 

Street,  East  Ardsley.  325,707. 
"  Rtjgona  "  ;  for  a  gout-remedy  (3).    By  W.  A.  Green,  15  Yar- 

borough  Road,  Southsea.  325,791. 
"Marathon,"  and  picture  of  two  runners;   for  medicinal 
chemicals  (3).     By  Faesett  &  Johnson,  86  Clerkenwell 
Road,  London,  E.G.  325,842. 
"  Ai?tapsals  ";  for  "asal  inhalers  and  medicaments  (3).  By 
W.  M.  Richards,  19  Horsefair  Street,  Leicester.  325,960. 
"  Covonia  ";  for  a  medicine  (3).    By  S.  T.  Shaw,  73  James 

Street,  Golcar,  near  Huddersfield.  326,049. 
"  Brynola  " ;   for  a  medicinal  preparation  (3).    By  G.  C. 

Mares,  96  St.  John  Street,  London,  E.C.  326,111. 
"  Lavoris  "  ;  for  medicinal  chemicals  (3).    By  Lavoris  Chemi- 
cal Co.,  8  North  Sixth  Street,  Minnesota,  U.S.A.  326,326. 
"  Ergoval  " ;  for  a  medicinal  preparation  (3).    By  James 
Woolley,  Sons  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  12  Victoria  Bridge  Street, 
Salford.    326,360.  * 
'  Hirc,"  and  facsimile  signature;  for  all  goods  (3).  By 
J.  T.  M.  Hircock,  116  Gladstone  Road,  Sparkbrook,  Bir- 
mingham. 326,379. 
'Ducal";  for  medicinal  chemicals  (3).    By  Erasmic  Co., 

Ltd.,  Bank  Quay,  Warrington.  326,446. 
'  Bildsicht  " ;    for  photographic   apparatus   (8).     By  F. 
Levie,  Oberstrasse  24,  Hanover.  324,539. 


Imperial  Institute  Reports.— Nos.  63  and  71  of  the  miscel- 
laneous colonial  reports  are  selected  reports  from  the  Scientific 
and  Technical  Department  of  the  Imperial  Institute.  Both 
reports  are  of  great  value  to  merchants,  brokers,  and  analysts, 
since  they  collate  a  great  deal  information,  much  of  which  has 
appeared  from  time  to  time  in  the  Bulletin  of  the  Imperial  In- 
stitute. No.  63  is  Part  II.  of  the  Institute's  reports,  and  treats 
of  gums  and  resins.  (Part  I.,  No.  58,  dealt  with  fibres.)  Under 
gums,  their  uses,  chemistry,  .analysis,  and  -valuation  are  first 
dealt  with.  Soluble  gums  and  insoluble  gums  are  treated 
separately,  the  various  grades  being  described,  while  par- 
ticulars are  given  of  the  exports  of  different  countries  and  of 
the  imports  into  Great  Britain.  The  principal  resins  dealt 
with  are  copal,  damar,  elem'i,  and  colophony.  Part  III. 
(No.  71)  relates  to  foodstuffs,  and  the  principal  feature  is  an 
article  on  "  Cyanogenesis  in  Plants,"  which  deals  exhaus- 
tively with  this  phenomenon,  which  is  of  such  import  to  those 
interested  in  cattle-foods.  Each  of  the  reports  contains  over 
200  pages,  and  an  index  adds  to  their  value.  They  can  be 
purchased  through  any  bookseller  at  3£<2.  each. 

Brighton  Association  of  Pharmacy.— The  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  above  Association  was  held  at  the  A. B.C.  rooms, 
King's  Road,  Brighton,  on  September  29.  The  election  of 
officers  for  the  ensuing  year  resulted  as  follows  :  President, 
Mr.  W.  H.  Gibson,  F.C.S.  (for  the  eighteenth  time  in  succes- 
sion) ;  Vice-Presidents,  Messrs.  Black,  Franklin,  Padwick, 
W.  W.  Savage,  and  Yates;  Hon.  Treasurer,  Mr.  J.  R. 
Gwatkin ;  Hon.  Secretary,  Mr.  C.  E.  Robinson;  Assistant 
Secretaries,  Messrs.  J.  Plowright  and  G.  B.  Savage ; 
Librarian,  "Mr.  C.  S.  Ashton.  Committee :  Messrs.  C.  A. 
Blarney.  R.  A.  Cripps,  F.  J.  Flatman,  H.  R.  Gwatkin,  Guy 
Hall,  E.  A'.  Jones,  J.  K.  Padwick,  A.  Plowright,  and  J. 
Williamson.  The  reports  of  the  Treasurer  and  Secretary  and 
Librarian  were  received  and  adopted.  A  discussion  on  the 
Shop  Hours  Bill  ensued  without  any  definite  result  being 
arrived  at,  and  questions  were  also  asked  regarding  the  ad- 
ministration of  the  Poisons  and  Pharmacy  Act  in  the  town  as 
regards  the  sale  of  agri-horticultural  poisons.  A  letter  was 
read  from  the  Secretary  of  the  Croydon  Association.  The 
members  received  with  regret  the  news  of  the  death  of  Mr. 
E.  Histed,  one  of  the  Association's  early  and  staunch  sup- 
porters. A  message  of  sympathy  was  sent  to  deceased's 
relatives. 


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